Can,t start VirtualBox on F19

Alchemist raimiiic at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 16:27:34 UTC 2013


2013/10/8 Owen Orakwue <orakwueo at aol.com>


> Here is the complete error message :
>
> 1)
>
>  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'
>
> as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the
> DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and
> recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
>
>
>  2)
>
>  [root at localhost init.d]# ./vboxdrv setup
> Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
> Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
> Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS[ OK ]
> Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
> (modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
> [root at localhost init.d]#
>
>
>  3)
>
>  When I ran 'dmesg', this is what I saw that is related to virtualbox :
>
>  [ 169.857137] warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy
> support in use)
>
>
>
>  -Owen
>
>
Run
yum reinstall kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms -y && service vboxdrv setup

to verify
service vboxdrv status && ls -l /lib/modules/3.1*/extra

cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
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