[SOLVED] Virtualbox installation throws warnings, packages not in repo?

ziphem · 08-27-2016, 03:58 PM

Hi, I'm migrating to a new computer, and installing Virtualbox. I opted to go for the version available on the website rather than repos. I install all, including dkms. On Virtualbox installation, I received the below message:

Code:

vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.

Interestingly, Virtualbox DOES start (I haven't setup any OS yet, though). Is the issue possibly somehow due to UEFI? Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks!!

ziphem · 08-27-2016, 04:18 PM

Resolved 2 of my own questions in 1 day, not bad ;-) For anyone else having this issue, my problem was UEFI. I disabled secure boot and I'm all good to go. Not the optimal solution, but at least this works - and necessary considering I fried the Windows partition on my Fedora 24 installation a few days ago. Also, in case anyone else is getting some errors first about needing to run sudo yum install kernel-core-devel-4.6.7-300.fc24.x86_64, it should just be sudo dnf kernel-devel, that's what you need. Virtualbox is specifying the wrong package name.

Hope this helps someone.