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junkam
June 18th, 2008, 01:04 PM
After the latest updates to Ubuntu 8 VirtualBox stopped working
I'm getting the following message


VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic..
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).


Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}



I tried to reinstall the package virtualbox-ose-modules-generic but the problem still exists.

HELP PLEASE

Joeb454
June 18th, 2008, 01:06 PM
From a terminal run
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup It should work then...you may have to reboot first, I'm not sure :)

junkam
June 18th, 2008, 01:48 PM
When I run sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
I get Usage: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv {start|stop|restart|status}

Doing sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv restart
I get:
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv[OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv
* No suitable module for running kernel found.

BARlotta
June 18th, 2008, 02:26 PM
The virtualbox module for the new kernel is not available yet. I am waiting for it as well.

As a workaround you can boot into the .18 kernel instead of the new .19.

junkam
June 18th, 2008, 08:19 PM
Thank you

buntunub
June 19th, 2008, 01:40 AM
From a terminal run
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup It should work then...you may have to reboot first, I'm not sure :)

Without the new Kmod, this wont work. Not sure when I first started seeing posts about this as a fix, but it is completely wrong.