I have Mandriva 2007 Spring (2007.1) with all updates and I configured a VirutalBox. When I try to start the VirtualBox I get an error stating that vboxdrv cannot be found. I try starting the VirualBox Daemon (e.g. /etc/init.d/virtualbox start) and I get the same error vboxdrv cannot be found. Shouldn't this work right out of the box? I have the powerpack edition and MCC states that virtualbox rpm was installed. What gives?

Thanks!


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I believe that you need the dkms-virtualbox package and also the kernel-source-stripped package for your current running kernel. Do you have these installed?

Jim

#rpm -q dkms-virtualbox
returns:
dkms-virtualbox-1.3.8-lmdv2007.1

How do I know if I have the kernel-source-stripped package?

Also, I used MCC to remove the VirtualBox package that was installed during installation and downloaded the binary from www.virtualbox.org for Mandriva 2007.1 and installed it. These are the results I received:

#rpm -i VirtualBox-1.3.8_mdv2007.1-1.i586.rpm

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Success!

FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/2.6.17-14mdv/misc/vboxdrv.ko) Invalid
module format

#

The log file: /var/log/vbox-install.log looks good. No errors reported.

I looked in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.17-14mdv/misc and the file is there:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 34478 May 14 21:03 vboxdrv.ko

Any other suggestions?

Thank you!

Also, I do see the vboxdrv file in /etc/init.d. Before this file was not there from the initial install from DVD. When I try to start the virtualbox daemon, I get the following message:

# ./virtualbox start

Starting virtualbox daemon: FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/2.6.17-14mdv/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid module format
[FAILED]

#

I didn't reboot after the rpm installation. I'll reboot and see if that helped.

I rebooted the machine and selected the 2.6.17-14mdv kernel.

Selected VirtualBox from the kde menu, configured my vm and selected start.

I received the following message:

Virtual Box kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module
was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some
reason. Re-setup the kernel module by
executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.

So as root:

# ./vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel module FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/2.
6.17-14mdv/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid module format
[FAILED]
(modprobe vboxdrv failed)
#

Hopefully, all that is good information for you

Interesting enough after doing the above, I decided to reboot the machine. When loading up after the restart I received the following error in a dialog box that popped up:

VirtualBox - Critical Error

Failed to initialize COM or find the virtualbox
COM server. Most likely, the virtualbox server is not
running or failed to start.

The application will now terminate

Callee RC: 0x80004005


This is probably because the ./virtualbox start command fails...

Those types of errors can occur if you compiled the vboxdrv module against a kernel source that is different from the kernel you are running. Check the output of:

$ rpm -qa | grep kernel

and:

$ uname -a

Make sure the kernel source you have installed corresponds to the kernel you are using.

Okay, I'll run both of those and see what the output is. I'm figuring it will be
2.6.17-14mdv kernel since that is the kernel I used when installing, when it compiled the kernel module (vboxdrv.ko) and the kernel that I selected at boot.

Thanks!