VirtualBox worked fine all morning, then had to go so powered the laptop down. When I booted it up, I got the dreaded error message


Of course, trying to re-setup vboxdrv didn't work


I checked and I do have virtualbox-kernel-laptop-latest installed.

I'm tearing my hair out here...

Help, please!

Instead of tearing your hair, read the program documentation and run (under a root console)

You should do this every time you upgrade your kernel, unless you have some sort of dkms-virtualbox package installed.

Same problem here. The easiest solution I found was to install the new kernel source, kernel-source-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0, and then install the dkms package for VirtualBox, dkms-virtualbox-1.5.0-6mdv2008.0. Reboot and a new vbox module will be automatically rebuilt and installed. Note, I don't think the vbox_build_module command will work unless you first install the kernel source for the new kernel which is not installed by default.

Thank you. As you can probably tell, I'm a bit of a newbie in all things Linux - and I may be trying to fly before I can walk...

Anyway, I did as you suggested - and this was the result:


Somehow, I think vboxdrv was not included in the kernel-laptop-latest. I know I'm not the only one to experience this today -someone else posted exactly the same problem on another forum.

Would installing dkms-virtualbox solve this?

I'm also experiencing the same problem. I got the exact same error message as jgj.

I have the non-open-source version (with PUEL) installed. I uninstalled it totally and installed the full version (again not the OSE, but the full version) from virtualbox site (the mandriva .rpm). Still the same problem as jgj.

After reading this thread I installed the dkms-virtualbox-1.5.0-6mdv2008.0 as suggested by pmpatrick. The only thing is that the dkms-virtualbox is meant for OSE version of VBox - I don't know if it's needed for the full version.

Anyway, I rebooted and got through the first part of scarecrow's advice. But the "vbox_build_module" was not recognized:

I still tried the third line in scarecrow's post:

OK, I then did what was suggested in the VirtualBox error message and that was to re-setup the kernel-module by executing /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup.


And I couldn't make head or tail of that message. I could post some of it if that would help.

dude67, you probably need the kernel source for the new kernel to compile the vboxdrv kernel module and it's not installed by default. See if you can get it to compile after installing kernel-source-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0:

# urpmi kernel-source-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0

And that worked!

Thank you very much.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I already have it installed.

The package in the repos is old (1.5.4 is out since ages) as well as the somewhat crippled OSE edition.
Why not the latest PUEL edition from here?
It still has problems (virtual folders are slow and buggy, USB2 does not work for storage devices etc...) but it's much better than the 1.5.0 OSE.

dude67, now that you mention it, I recall having similar problems trying to build the vboxdrv on the non-free version, albeit with a different kernel. I never could get the rpm version of the non-free version to work with any kernel in 2008. I would definitely uninstall the dkms-virtualbox package for starters and see if the module will compile.

I'm sorry, my posts seem a little confusing. I'll try to clarify.

I did DL and install the .rpm PUEL package from the VBox site (the very link scarecrow posted). I had uninstalled the previous installation (done earlier with the .run package found on their site) before running the .rpm (PUEL) package.

I could not get it to work with that - it gave me the same error message as jgj posted in the first post.

I have the latest kernel-sources also installed.

I tried, but I could not get it to work according to the advice scarecrow gave (see my earlier posts above). When trying to make it work, I installed the dkms-virtualbox modules (for OSE as I couldn't find any dkms-virtualbox packages for PUEL). No dice.


@pmpatrick: Sorry, if this is a newbie question, but what exactly does that mean? I get the part where I should uninstall the dkms-virtualbox -package, but how to compile the module? Do you mean according to scarecrow's first post in this thread? I believe that is what I first tried - also tried to make it work by booting the system. I think the system is giving some errors when booting and saying something about not finding the kernel-modules for vbox... something. It goes by pretty fast - I could find that bit from the logs. I'm not at home currently - could check that tonight, though.

What I do when using the PUEL version:

1. Uninstall ALL other vbox and virtualbox rpms (Enter vbox|virtualbox in the search box in the Software Manager)

2. Make sure kernel-desktop-devel-latest is installed (or kernel-laptop-devel-latest if using the laptop kernel ). (The full kernel source may be OK, but is not necessary)

3. Install the PUEL rpm.

4. Add my user to the vboxusers group

5. After booting into a new kernel, re-run the setup script. (On the first attempt to launch a vm after booting into a new kernel, a pop-up displays the exact command that must be run.)

This works perfectly for me every time.

Jim

Adding the current user in the "vboxusers" group and then logging out and back in is mandatory to be granted the right permissions for running VM's... maybe this is what you have missed, dude67.

Thanks guys, I'll post back when I have had time to test this.

Thank you all: scarecrow, pmpatrick and jkerr82508!

I had my user ID added to the group vboxuser. So it wasn't that.

What I did was this:
1) I uninstalled the lot (again, I might add...): anything to have virtualbox or vbox in their name.

2) I installed kernel-desktop-devel-latest module (just in case and as Jim suggested).

3) Installed the .rpm (PUEL) package found on the virtualbox site.

3) Rebooted (or rather started X again - [Ctrl - Alt - backsp])

And finally I was able to start Vbox guests! Thank you all!

dude67's solution worked for me too!! Yaaay!!

And now Vbox runs swell.

However, I made the mistake of entering the Konsole command "# urpmi kernel-source-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0", so now, every time I boot, Kernel wants (persistently insists) to install vboxadd (1.5.0-6mdv...) like 3 consecutive times while booting, always saying "Bad Exit Status 8, Build Failed, Installation Skipped."

Is there a way of killing whatever command is there in queue that tries to install this vboxadd in the kernel?

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

++++++++++++++++NEVER MIND!+++++++++++++++++++
I solved it, just wanted to post the solution, just in case someone else needs it.
when I manually urpmi'ed, I send a 22.18 version to the kernel, and then went to software manager I uploaded 22.12 and 22.9 (older ones). Totally missed the .12 and .9 and take note of the previous .18
So, I went to software manager and uninstalled the outdated .12 and .9 for vboxadd and vboxvfs. Refreshed, rebooted, no problems, Vbox still runs swell

Glad it worked for you as well!

Hi folks, same problem also, happened not long ago. Check my last post below for info of what solved it last time. Am about to do it again, will let you know how it works.

~Mitchell

http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...p;hl=virtualbox