I have installed Oracle VM VirtualBox on Ubuntu 13.10 and I am trying to install IE8 on Windows 7 from Terminal as suggested in. I am running following command on Terminal: $ curl -s IEVMS_VERSIONS='8' bash However, after downloading the appropriate package Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, when it is getting installed, I am receiving following error on Terminal. Installing Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack from /home/ninad/.ievms/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.2.vbox-extpack 0%. Looks like there are quite a few steps to install Oracle VM VirtualBox extension package. After installation of Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.2.vbox-extpack was successful, • I tried to run $ curl -s IEVMS_VERSIONS='8' bash This gave me an error ERROR: Linux support requires unar (sudo apt-get install for Ubuntu/Debian) I resolved it bu running $ sudo apt-get install unar on Terminal. • Then I re-ran command $ curl -s IEVMS_VERSIONS='8' bash However, it gave me an error which said something like Unable to extract IE6_WinXP.zip from /home/ninad/.ievms/IE6_WinXP.zip. When I checked in this folder, (by showing hidden files Ctrl+ H) it showed IE6_WinXP.zip file which was just 1.6 MB in size.

I deleted that and re-run the curl command. Then it downloaded the required package for IE8 successfully and installed. • After installation was complete, when it came to a point of starting the newly installed VM, it gave an error of Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Tux 3 VT-x features locked or unavailable in MSR (VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED). At this point, my Virtual Machine was looking like it is installed but in Powered off mode. When I tried to start it, it gave me the following error - I resolved it by referring to answer of i.e.

By enabling visualization in BIOS Advance settings (To enter BIOS, I press F2 before Ubuntu's grub menu appears when computer is starting). Project X Love Potion Disaster Download 5.5. Once this last piece of error taken care of, my Oracle VM VirtualBox started showing IE8 on WinXP and also powered it on correctly.

Discussions related to using VirtualBox on Linux hosts. Failed to install the Extension Pack /home/charles/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.2-73507.vbox-extpack. The installer failed with exit code 127: Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent was found. The strange thing is that if I use sudo to install it. I have installed Oracle VM VirtualBox on Ubuntu 13.10 and I am trying to install IE8 on Windows 7 from Terminal as suggested in this answer. I am running following.