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Datcom001 01-04-2016 07:37 PM
Virtual Machine
 
whilst running virtualbox on centos 6.7
The error comes up when starting a linux distro...
The Bios of the PC doesnt show any option to turn on VT-x.
Though it may be capable.


The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv

"VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT."

suicidaleggroll 01-04-2016 08:50 PM
The error is pretty self-explanitory...the VirtualBox kernel driver is not loaded. This usually happens when you update the host's kernel and haven't recompiled the VirtualBox kernel module.

Did it ever work? How did you install VBox? Have you recently updated the host?

ondoho 01-05-2016 05:28 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by suicidaleggroll (Post 5473147)
The error is pretty self-explanitory...
...and it's pretty much the first item on virtualbox' FAQ.
did you even search before posting?

BW-userx 01-05-2016 07:03 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Datcom001 (Post 5473121)
whilst running virtualbox on centos 6.7
The error comes up when starting a linux distro...
The Bios of the PC doesnt show any option to turn on VT-x.
Though it may be capable.


The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv

"VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT."
did you install your drivers, did you mod your conf files to load VB on start up?

Datcom001 01-05-2016 04:12 PM
i know but the PC itself might not be capable.

smallpond 01-05-2016 04:20 PM
Check with:
Code:
grep --color vmx /proc/cpuinfo

BW-userx 01-05-2016 04:31 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Datcom001 (Post 5473566)
i know but the PC itself might not be capable.


Oh yeah - just thought of this too, with mine (laptop) I had to trun on virualization in my BIOS before I could get VB to work on mine


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