Can,t start VirtualBox on F19

[Owen Orakwue]

 lI installed VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.18_88780_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm.
I tried the rpm from Oracle and the one from Virtualbox.org
-Owen

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
To: Owen Orakwue <orakwueo at aol.com>; users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 10:58 am
Subject: Re: Can,t start VirtualBox on F19


please do not top-post and use HTML on mailing-lists

Am 08.10.2013 16:55, schrieb Owen Orakwue:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>; 
orakwueo <orakwueo at aol.com>
> Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 10:38 am
> Subject: Re: Can,t start VirtualBox on F19
> 
> Am 08.10.2013 16:36, schrieb Owen Orakwue:
>> I am getting the error message below on a Fredora 19 system when attempt to 
> start VirualBox
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated:
>> 
>> 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
>> '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
> 
> you did *not* mention if you followed the advise
> type "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" in a root terminal
> 
> I did and it complained that |"modprobe vboxdrv" failed.
> And verified that 'vboxdrv' is not in /dev

* which vbox version
* package from rpmfusion or upstream

most likely build of the kernel-module failed because too new kernel




 
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