Comments on: Recompiling Virtualbox Kernel Module

By: salman

salman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:18:14 +0000

I have installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1 and VirtualBox 4.1.4 on it.
I have done everything but the following error wasn’t resolved.

# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [ FAILED ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel module [ FAILED ]

Please help me in that.

By: Mat Lilly

Mat Lilly — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:20:01 +0000

I had a time getting VirtualBox to run on both Fedora 14 & 15. Missing the kernel. init.d/vboxdrv setup always failed. Running on an el-cheapo Dell Netbook (32 bit, 10v). I tried everything everywhere, and could not get it to work. I don’t know if someone else has already cited this, but it fixed absolutely everything instantly. I wish I would have thought of it before all of the frustration.

Simply….

sudo yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)

By: Cristian Stroparo

Cristian Stroparo — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:22:56 +0000

Just an update, as nowadays it is vboxadd and not vboxdrv ;) (in the same dir. i.e. /etc/init.d)

By: CharlesTown

CharlesTown — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:45:00 +0000

Murray great mark!!

My problem was the path for the KER_DIR i pointed on

KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.1—PAE

and it seemed to be fine but…. i crash with other error iin the installation :

Starting VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)

[root@char modules]# yum -y install kernel-devel gcc-c++

and finally it works!! i found more help here :

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31441

works on fedora 13

By: Murray

Murray — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:42:50 +0000

ran

export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.3.el5-i686/

and all is ok

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

By: Krieger

Krieger — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:26:17 +0000

Valeu… Kernel-PAE-devel funfou!!

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.