So today I had the great idea of attempting to install virtual box, more for fun than need to be honest, but I run into an awful lot of problems.
Right, so I'm on ubuntu 14.04.
FIrst I downloaded it from the software centre and installed, and all OK till I created a windows VM and the moment I started it I had an error, something along the lines of
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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
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I've found a few posts, most recommending to remove and reinstall VB
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
but to no avail.
I then uninstalled it again and installed it directly from the terminal after a
Code:
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-\*
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\*
and I think the version I ended up with is different from the one I downloaded from the VB website but nevermind that, my 2 VMs created before were still there and the error is still there, here is the fill text
Code:
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. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
where: suplibOsInit
what: 3
VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.
So what else have I tried?
I tried the below
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
but the last command failed. Is there anything else I could try to get it to work? ANybody got it successfully installed and fully working?
cheers
