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Nicolas Raoul
Asked: 2015-12-04 19:53:45 +0800 CST

VirtualBox "Kernel driver not installed" error despite running /sbin/vboxconfig

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When starting a VirtualBox VM, I get:

VirtualBox - Error in suplibOsInit

Running sudo /sbin/vboxconfig does not fix the problem.
How to fix that?

VirtualBox 5.0.10 r104061

14.04

6 Answers

  1. same problem with me, abort it if you not use vagrant.

    the output when i run vagrant up:

    The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine
'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The
reason is shown below:

VirtualBox is complaining that the kernel module is not loaded. Please
run `VBoxManage --version` or open the VirtualBox GUI to see the error
message which should contain instructions on how to fix this error.

    output VBoxManage --version:

    WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (3.19.0-47-generic) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
5.0.14r105127

    output sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup:

    Bad argument setup

    My problem solved after run this command sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

    $ sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
$ VBoxManage --version
5.0.14r105127
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  2. You can always use modprobe to add a kernel module. I solved the same problem on my server by doing:

    [root@mageia5][/home/afk]# modprobe -a vboxdrv
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  3. I found the following virtualbox dkms related packages:

    • virtualbox-dkms
    • virtualbox-guest-dkms

    Did you install these packages?

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  4. WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (4.7.1-1-ARCH) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by sudo

    /sbin/vboxconfig

    You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

    The fix for this for me was to install the linux-headers package

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  5. This seems to be a known bug.
    Running the following commands fixes the problem:

    sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup

    Unfortunately, you will have to run these commands after each reboot.

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  6. Had the same Problem. Was searching for the solution for days. In the end it was EFI blocking some functionality. My solve was to

    1. restart machine
    2. enter bios
    3. disable "secure boot" under "security" (your specific name of the config could vary depending on the machine and bios used, but should be similar)

    Hope this could help some nomads seeking days for answers like myself.

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