I have been using VMWare on Windows for a long time. But after a long wait, I moved to VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.10. I installed Ubuntu, 32 Bit, installed all available updates and installed Virtual Box. When I try to create a new Windows installation inside VirtualBox, I got the following error messages.

1st error dialogue

VirtualBox - Error

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP.<br>
The virtual machine '**Windows XP**' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.<p>
Details<p>

Result Code: <br>
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)<br>
Component: <br>
Machine<br>
Interface: <br>
IMachine {5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91}<p>

2nd error dialogue

**Virtualbox - Error in suplibOsinit**<br>
**Kernal driver not installed (rc--1908)**<br>
Please install the virtualbox-dkmbs package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.<p>

Steps I tried

• I have already tried reinstalling VirtualBox.
• Google result seem to indicate the the problem happens due to Kernel updates.
  Is there anyway I can get this working? I need this for malware analysis and if VirtualBox is going to crash on me all the time, then I won't be able to use Ubuntu for work.

Output to dpkg -l | grep virtual

 server
rc  virtualbox                             4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1                    
x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
rc  virtualbox-qt                          4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1                    
x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface 
cute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.<p>