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  1. #71
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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Quote Originally Posted by lolpenguin View Post
    Did you upgrade your kernel? Virtualbox depends on kernel modules so you have to recompile them:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms
    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
    Thanks for this, I set this as a *fixvm* alias in .bash_aliases and passed the yes argument in addition to concatenating the commands.

    Code:
    alias fixvm='sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms -y && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms -y'
    Now I just type
    Code:
    fixvm
    and it takes care of it!

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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Quote Originally Posted by lads View Post
    There was another kernel update yesterday, to release 3.0.0-14-generic, and VirtualBox became inoperable once again. Luckily removing and installing the virtualbox-dkms package solves the issue, since it triggers the re-build against the new kernel. For future reference here it is again the recipe:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms
    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
    thanks lads, this solution works for me

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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    This error is back again on Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel 3.2.0-57-generic). The old solution is so far not producing any results. Updates to follow.

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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Have you installed the newest update, 4.3.6? I've not yet done so and my 12.04.3 systems are both working properly, but when I did the previous update I found that "saved" VMs would not load until I discarded the saved data. Once the VM was back to powered-down state, it loaded properly and all data in the virtual drives was in good shape. Apparently changes are happening in the saved-data metadata, causing problems unless the VM was saved with the same vbox version that is attempting to restore it...
    Last edited by JKyleOKC; December 19th, 2013 at 05:05 PM. Reason: typo
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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    With VBox out of order on my main 12.04 system, I proceeded to try it out on 13.10. I installed VBox 4.3 from the Oracle PPA following this guide. Right on the first run VBox complains with this same error (Kernel driver not installed). This happens with VMs without saved state.

    What is going on?

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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Do you have the linux-headers-generic, build-essentials, and dkms packages installed on 13.10? All three packages are required in order to install any version of vbox, or any updates to it...
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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Quote Originally Posted by JKyleOKC View Post
    Do you have the linux-headers-generic, build-essentials, and dkms packages installed on 13.10?
    I was missing linux-headers-generic. Thanks.

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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Two years and 100 00 views later this problem still goes on. Right now the fix provided by CharlesA seems to be the only one working properly on Ubuntu 12.04.

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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Glad that still works, but it sucks that there seem to be so many people running into the same problems. Kinda makes me glad I moved from Vbox to KVM.

    I'm not sure if it'll work on the newer versions though.
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    Re: VBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

    Thanks so much. That did it .

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