nitric
October 23rd, 2010, 03:30 AM
Ok guys, I've been on here before and gotten some great help, I need that once again!
First off I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 64bit, if you would like a complete discription of my hardware you can find my lshw > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6920165/lshw%28vaio%29.html
I seem to have broken my VirtualBox installation, I went from VirtualBox OSE to VirtualBox 3.2 (again 64bit version downloaded from virtualbox.org the about says version 3.2.10 r66523) I tried apt-get purging 3.2 and going back to OSE but it gives me the same error I started getting when I tried installing 3.2 so I have decided to install that again and try and trouble shoot the problem.
I get two error windows that pop up when I try and start my windows xp virtualbox, the first says:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
And the second says:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Sierra Designs - XP.
The virtual machine 'Sierra*Designs*-*XP' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.
Details:
Result*Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {6d9212cb-a5c0-48b7-bbc1-3fa2ba2ee6d2}
So I open up a terminal and run
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules * done.
* Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules * done.
* Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.32-24-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/source.
* Failed, trying without DKMS
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules
* Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
So I look at vbox-install.log and it says,
Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/3.2.10/source ->
/usr/src/vboxhost-3.2.10
DKMS: add Completed.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located, or you could install the linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic package.
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
I also tried running:
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
and received the error:
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
Any suggestions?
First off I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 64bit, if you would like a complete discription of my hardware you can find my lshw > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6920165/lshw%28vaio%29.html
I seem to have broken my VirtualBox installation, I went from VirtualBox OSE to VirtualBox 3.2 (again 64bit version downloaded from virtualbox.org the about says version 3.2.10 r66523) I tried apt-get purging 3.2 and going back to OSE but it gives me the same error I started getting when I tried installing 3.2 so I have decided to install that again and try and trouble shoot the problem.
I get two error windows that pop up when I try and start my windows xp virtualbox, the first says:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
And the second says:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Sierra Designs - XP.
The virtual machine 'Sierra*Designs*-*XP' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.
Details:
Result*Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {6d9212cb-a5c0-48b7-bbc1-3fa2ba2ee6d2}
So I open up a terminal and run
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules * done.
* Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules * done.
* Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.32-24-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/source.
* Failed, trying without DKMS
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules
* Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
So I look at vbox-install.log and it says,
Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/3.2.10/source ->
/usr/src/vboxhost-3.2.10
DKMS: add Completed.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located, or you could install the linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic package.
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
I also tried running:
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
and received the error:
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
Any suggestions?