If you’re using Ubuntu 10.04 and can’t get VirtualBox to start it may be giving you messages about loading “vboxnetflt”. For some reason the latest round of updates screwed up the ability for the network bridging modules to load properly. You’ve tried to modprobe vboxnetlft just like the message on screen tells you but you get this message:
FATAL: Error inserting vboxnetflt (/lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/updates/dkms/vboxnetflt.ko): Invalid module format |
Here’s the workaround until there is a proper set of updates:
sudo modprobe vboxdrv sudo insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/dkms/vboxnetflt.ko sudo insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/dkms/vboxnetadp.ko |
Thanks, that did the trick for me.
Excellent.. it works for me ..Thanks a lot
When I ran this procedure, I no longer got the error message with bridged adapters. However, I also did not get an active network connection in the virtual machine.
However, I’ve stumbled across a brute-force method of getting the bridged adapter to work. I’ve yet to try to pare it down to find out what’s going on, and it takes a bit to do, but it works for until you restart your host computer.
sudo rmmod vboxdrv
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get purge
sudo apt-get install virtualbox*
At this point, I’m able to completely use the bridged network. Be forewarned… its a 230MB+ download for that last command.
Thanks by the trick.
I changed the adapter from Intel to PCNet Fast III and it worked.