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Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
Posts: 251
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VirtualBox asks me to run vboxconfig each time
Hi, after each restart of my Debian Wheezy, when I want to launch a VM, I have message:
"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
'/sbin/vboxconfig'
as root.
where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT."
Do you know why I need to do it each time, or otherwise where I should look for to find the explanations and thus making this driver installed automatically at each boot.
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
Posts: 3,881
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stéphane Ascoët
Hi, after each restart of my Debian Wheezy, when I want to launch a VM, I have message:
"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
'/sbin/vboxconfig'
as root.
where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT."
Do you know why I need to do it each time, or otherwise where I should look for to find the explanations and thus making this driver installed automatically at each boot.
As it's telling you, the driver for Virtualbox is not installed and therefore you will not be able to start any VM's. Open a terminal window as superuser/root and run the command it's telling you to.
If this still does not work, try reinstalling Virtualbox.
Last edited by jsbjsb001; 02-23-2017 at 03:45 AM.
Reason: typo
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
Posts: 3,881
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stéphane Ascoët
Yes, that's what I do but I'd like to not be forced to do it everyday
Let's start with some basic info like;
How did you install Virtualbox (and where from, official repo's, etc)?
As I have Virtualbox installed myself and have not had any issues, that you are talking about. I have installed it from official repo's for my distro (PCLinuxOS).
Last edited by jsbjsb001; 02-23-2017 at 08:10 AM.
Reason: typo
Is there a package for Virtualbox in the official repo's for Debian Wheezy? If so, you should install it from there instead (uninstall your current Virtualbox installation first).
If you are still having the same problem, then you may need to check file permissions (as the output you posted, originally said). As that's the only other possibly I can think of, as to why you are getting that error message.
Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
Posts: 251
Original Poster
Rep:
Probleme with VirtualBox
Quote:
Originally Posted by jsbjsb001
Is there a package for Virtualbox in the official repo's for Debian Wheezy? If so, you should install it from there instead (uninstall your current Virtualbox installation first).
That's what I've done in the first place, but with this old one I couldn't use the window$ installer provided by my work.
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