Category Archives: VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 computers currently being developed by Oracle Corporation.

Pritunl: running VPN in Kubernetes

5 October 2022
 

  Pritunl is a VPN server with a bunch of advanced security and access control features. In fact, it is just a wrapper over OpenVPN, adding such Access Control Lists to it in the form of Organizations, users, and routes. The task is to deploy a Pritunl test instance in Kubernetesб so we can take a… Read More »

Kubernetes: running Minikube on Arch Linux

27 March 2019
 

 Minikube – a utility to run a Kubernetes cluster locally on your PC. It can use Virtualbox, VMware, Hyper-V etc hypervisors which will be used to create a virtual machine with a Kubernetes cluster. Minikube is a great tool for developers or DevOps engineers to test deployments/services etc without the need to create and configure… Read More »

VirtualBox: Nonexistent host networking interface, name ‘wlp13s0’

11 March 2019
 

 Have the ~/VirtualBox VMs directory copied from my old laptop to a new PC. Now during VM’s launch – VirtualBox says: Nonexistent host networking interface, name ‘wlp13s0’ (VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: ConsoleWrap Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed} Check interfaces on the new PC: [simterm] $ ip a s 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue… Read More »

Linux: The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv

5 March 2019
 

 After each new VirtualBox installation – I’m stepping on the same rake again and again and have to go to Google to ask: The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv Attempt to load vboxdrv manually also provides the error: [simterm] $ sudo modprobe vboxdrv… Read More »