Setup Ubuntu VM VirtualBox on macOS and avoid 4 common errors

datatec.studio
Virtualization MVP
Published in
6 min readAug 7, 2021

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One day you find a very interesting project and wanna run it on local. If you only have a macOS (e.g macOS Big Sur v11.5.1)and the project is developed on ubuntu for example, one solution comes to mind might be using a ubuntu VM on then macOS.

This article will describe 5 main steps for the setup.

If you really follow the steps, you will avoid following error message during setup process:

  1. Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
  2. Error code

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