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So I tried virt-manager but it's giving me an error message about not being able to connect to "libvirt qemu:///system" and it wont let me install a virtual machine. I'm assuming that I'm supposed to download "libvirtd", but I can't figure out how to install it. I think it wants me to build it from the source but there doesn't seem to be a guide on how to do that.

So I tried virt-manager but it's giving me an error message about not being able to connect to "libvirt qemu:///system" and it wont let me install a virtual machine. I'm assuming that I'm supposed to download "libvirtd", but I can't figure out how to install it. I think it wants me to build it from the source but there doesn't seem to be a guide on how to do that.

I'm not sure what you mean but it doesn't matter because VirtualBox still isn't working and I've decided to uninstall it and try some alternatives that people have mentioned.

I just tried Gnome Boxes and it seems to work mostly fine but the only problem I’m having is that I’m trying to run a Windows XP virtual machine but I can’t figure out how to get files from my host to the guest. Apparently, I need some software to be running on the guest but the website that I need to download the software from doesn’t work in internet explorer and I obviously can’t just download it on the host and transfer it to the guest.

I'm currently installing virt-manager but I ran into a problem with Gnome Boxes where I’m trying to run a Windows XP virtual machine but I can’t figure out how to get files from my host to the guest. Apparently, I need some software to be running on the guest but the website that I need to download the software from doesn’t work in internet explorer and I obviously can’t just download it on the host and transfer it to the guest.

I actually just tried Gnome Boxes and it seems to work mostly fine but the only problem I'm having is that I'm trying to run a Windows XP virtual machine but I can't figure out how to get files from my host to the guest. Apparently, I need some software to be running on the guest but the website that I need to download the software from doesn't work in internet explorer and I obviously can't just download it on the host and transfer it to the guest.

That doesn't work for me as they give me error messages:

    
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt remove virtualbox-dkms
[sudo] password for j:  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'virtualbox-dkms' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install make gcc build-essential linux-headers-'uname -r' dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-uname -r
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqt5help5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
  vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  virtualbox-7.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/46.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
(Reading database ... 642834 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-7.0 (7.0.12-159484~Ubuntu~jammy) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-7.0 (--remove):
 installed virtualbox-7.0 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.  If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the
kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load
them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-7.0
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  

When you say other packages, what are you referring to? If you are referring to downloading the package directly from their website verses just installing it through apt using Mint's repository, I have done both and I have the same issue with both of them.

I don't know what that means, is there a way I can find out?

No, it's giving me the following error message:

    
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
[sudo] password for j:  
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Operation not permitted

  

Ok thanks, I might try those later if I can't get VirtualBox working.

How similar to VirtualBox is virt-manager? I've only ever used VirtualBox but if virt-manager is easy to use, I have no problem trying it out.

Is there something specific from that link that I'm supposed to use because I tired the top solution and it just gave me a bunch of error messages:

    
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms virtualbox-dkms
[sudo] password for j:  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
dkms is already the newest version (2.8.7-2ubuntu2.1mint1).
build-essential is already the newest version (12.9ubuntu3).
linux-headers-5.15.0-88-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0-88.98).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqt5help5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
  vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  virtualbox-7.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/46.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
(Reading database ... 642834 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-7.0 (7.0.12-159484~Ubuntu~jammy) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-7.0 (--remove):
 installed virtualbox-7.0 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.  If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the
kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load
them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-7.0
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Operation not permitted

  

I already restarted my computer twice after installing it, is there any reason I would have restart my computer a third time?

It's telling me that they are already installed: j@j-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) [sudo] password for j: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done linux-headers-5.15.0-88-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0-88.98). linux-headers-5.15.0-88-generic set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: brave-keyring libu2f-udev linux-headers-5.15.0-76 linux-headers-5.15.0-76-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-78 linux-headers-5.15.0-78-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-79 linux-headers-5.15.0-79-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-82 linux-headers-5.15.0-82-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-83 linux-headers-5.15.0-83-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-84 linux-headers-5.15.0-84-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-86 linux-headers-5.15.0-86-generic linux-image-5.15.0-76-generic linux-image-5.15.0-78-generic linux-image-5.15.0-79-generic linux-image-5.15.0-82-generic linux-image-5.15.0-83-generic linux-image-5.15.0-84-generic linux-image-5.15.0-86-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-76-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-78-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-79-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-82-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-83-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-84-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-86-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-76-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-78-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-79-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-82-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-83-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-84-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-86-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I tried that but It's giving me the error message E: Unable to locate package kernel-headers.

Ok but how do I do that?

Yes but all of the files I move are either already very small or they are compressed (and sometimes split as well) so they can fit. One of the devices has 4GB of Storage and the other one has 8GB of storage but I do also have a thumb drive that can hold 32GB if I ever need to move something big (which has yet to happen). Most of the things I move are just games I download from Itch so it's very rarely anything over a few GBs, so the 4GB device gets the job done 99% of the time.

When I was using the 8GB device for music, I never really ran into problems with storage space and even if I did, the device has a micro SD card slot that supports up to 128GB micro SD cards. But I have phones that I can use for this purpose now, so not being able to use the mp3s for music isn't a problem.

I have two that I use to transfer files from one computer to another. I did think about using one of them for actually listening to music again but the device keeps crashing, the battery doesn't last very long anymore and I lost the software required to convert videos and I think it's too old and obscure to find it again.

I'm probably going to get down-voted for saying this but my primary search engine is Bing because of the rewards thing but I often use Brave's search engine for more private searches.

I would also consider looking into either Ecosia or OceanHero. Someone has already mentioned Ecosia but OceanHero does something similar but for cleaning oceans.