[Fedora-Bangladesh] Couldn't start virtualbox

mak mahayalamkhan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 07:35:57 UTC 2010


What's the configuration of your *real box* that you are trying the virtual
box on.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor <
zombiegenerator at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> This time it's with Virtualbox. I've installed Virtualbox 3.2.0 in my
> Fedora. Whenever I want to start the box something like this is showing
> up:
>
> 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. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS
> package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and
> recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
>
> Then I've install "dkms" and this is happening:
>
>
> [root at localhost Nirjhor]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> Stopping VirtualBox kernel module                          [  OK  ]
> Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module                       [FAILED]
>  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
>
> Here's the output of /var/log/vbox-install.log :
>
>
> Attempting to install using DKMS
>
> Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.2.0/source ->
>                 /usr/src/vboxdrv-3.2.0
>
> DKMS: add Completed.
>
> Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686 cannot be
> found at
> /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686/build
> or /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686/source.
> You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's
> located.
> Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
> Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
> Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
>
> Any help?
>
> --
> Regards-
> Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
> Documentation Team,
> Linux Mint Bangladesh,
> Bogra.
>
>
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