This page describes how to run VirtualBox on NixOS.

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edit Enabling VirtualBox

Add the following to your configuration.nix: 

require = [ <nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix> ];

Then run: 

$ nixos-rebuild switch

VirtualBox is only available to users in the vboxusers group. So to enable VirtualBox for user alice, do: 

$ usermod -a -G vboxusers alice

edit Running VirtualBox

Just do: 

$ VirtualBox

edit Error messages

edit Missing kernel modules

If you get this error message (like this), something went wrong: 

/dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Load the kernel module then try again.
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