Comments on: Recompiling Virtualbox Kernel Module

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:28:08 +0000

Thanks, kernel-PAE-devel worked always on Fedora 13.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:27:53 +0000

Thanks, kernel-PAE-devel worked always on Fedora 13.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]

By: Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:47:39 +0000

Thanks a lot davidDAE, installing kernel-PAE-devel worked for me.

By: davidDAE

davidDAE — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:02:14 +0000

The solution that works for me is this:

#yum install kernel-PAE-devel
#/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Fedora 12.

I hope this can help you.

By: Barclay

Barclay — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:13:14 +0000

i keep getting this no matter what!
“barclay@barclay-laptop:~$ /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel module
*(<–this star is red) Cannot unload module vboxnetadp
barclay@barclay-laptop:~$ "

things in () dont appear in kernel just extra info

By: Roachy

Roachy — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:31:46 +0000

Many thanks – that saved me some effort :)

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:04:49 +0000

I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 and Virtualbox wouldn’t start. I’ve tried reinstalling it several times but no joy until I renamed the .VirtualBox folder in my home folder and reinstalled. I kept getting the message that it couldn’t convert the XML from version 1.7 (that’s not verbatim…) and suggesting I run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup. Problem is when I do that it says setup is not a valid option! The only valid options are start, stop, restart and status. If I try any of the others I get a message saying “No suitable module for running kernel found.” After I reinstalled after renaming .Virtual box it starts but I get the 1908 error also mentioned in this thread. I have DKMS installed, and it was from the start. I would really like to get back my version of Virtualbox I had running under 8.04 as I had installed and used some Windoze programs, and there is some data in there. Any chance of that happening?…

Thanks,
Ian

By: Milton

Milton — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:14:31 +0000

Good tip !!! Really help me :-) Thanks.

I use Fedora 10 x64,

I think the other users who had problems does not have the kernel-headers

As root:

# yum -y install kernel-headers

By: varis

varis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:30:46 +0000

Thanks
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
worked fine!!!!! werry fine!!!

By: roclan

roclan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:12:15 +0000

On Ubuntu Hardy – after installing 2.6.24-23-generic, my error message said:

VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Re-setup the kernel module by executing

‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’

as root. Users of Ubuntu or Fedora should install the DKMS package at first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

So I installed the DKMS package and then ran

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

worked fine!