I'm a little crippled because I describe the whole problem at my blog, but I'm not allowed to post URLs.
I installed VB using the instructions at the third hit of Googling "virtualbox fedora 33." It seemed to install fine, but when I try to create a new machine, I get:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows.
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing
‘/sbin/vboxconfig’
as root.
If your system has EFI Secure Boot enabled you may also need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system’s documentation for more information.
where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) – The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.
The virtual machine ‘Windows’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}
So, I run /sbin/vboxconfig, and get this:
# /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.log to find out what went wrong.
So I look at the log.
# cat /var/log/vbox-setup.log
Building the main VirtualBox module.
Building the net filter module.
Error building the module:
make V=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL= -C /lib/modules/5.11.14-200.fc33.x86_64/build M=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 -j12 modules
make[1]: warning: -j12 forced in submake: resetting jobserver mode.
make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0 \
single-build= \
need-builtin=1 need-modorder=1
gcc -Wp,-MMD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.VBoxNetFlt-linux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Wno-address-of-packed-member -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -fcf-protection=none -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2 -fno-allow-store-data-races -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-const-variable -g -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-zero-length-bounds -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-strict-overflow -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -Wno-packed-not-aligned -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -fno-pie -Wno-declaration-after-statement -I./include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='”VBoxNetFlt_linux”‘ -DKBUILD_MODNAME='”vboxnetflt”‘ -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c
gcc -Wp,-MMD,/tmp/vbox.0/.VBoxNetFlt.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Wno-address-of-packed-member -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -fcf-protection=none -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2 -fno-allow-store-data-races -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-const-variable -g -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-zero-length-bounds -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-strict-overflow -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -Wno-packed-not-aligned -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -fno-pie -Wno-declaration-after-statement -I./include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='”VBoxNetFlt”‘ -DKBUILD_MODNAME='”vboxnetflt”‘ -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxNetFlt.o /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxNetFlt.c
gcc -Wp,-MMD,/tmp/vbox.0/.SUPR0IdcClient.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Wno-address-of-packed-member -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -fcf-protection=none -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2 -fno-allow-store-data-races -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-const-variable -g -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-zero-length-bounds -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-strict-overflow -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -Wno-packed-not-aligned -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -fno-pie -Wno-declaration-after-statement -I./include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='”SUPR0IdcClient”‘ -DKBUILD_MODNAME='”vboxnetflt”‘ -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClient.o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClient.c
gcc -Wp,-MMD,/tmp/vbox.0/.SUPR0IdcClientComponent.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Wno-address-of-packed-member -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -fcf-protection=none -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2 -fno-allow-store-data-races -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-const-variable -g -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-zero-length-bounds -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-strict-overflow -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -Wno-packed-not-aligned -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -fno-pie -Wno-declaration-after-statement -I./include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='”SUPR0IdcClientComponent”‘ -DKBUILD_MODNAME='”vboxnetflt”‘ -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClientComponent.o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClientComponent.c
gcc -Wp,-MMD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.SUPR0IdcClient-linux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Wno-address-of-packed-member -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -fcf-protection=none -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2 -fno-allow-store-data-races -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-const-variable -g -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-zero-length-bounds -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-strict-overflow -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -Wno-packed-not-aligned -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -fno-pie -Wno-declaration-after-statement -I./include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='”SUPR0IdcClient_linux”‘ -DKBUILD_MODNAME='”vboxnetflt”‘ -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPR0IdcClient-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPR0IdcClient-linux.c
./tools/objtool/objtool orc generate –module –no-fp –retpoline –uaccess /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPR0IdcClient-linux.o
./tools/objtool/objtool orc generate –module –no-fp –retpoline –uaccess /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClientComponent.o
./tools/objtool/objtool orc generate –module –no-fp –retpoline –uaccess /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClient.o
./tools/objtool/objtool orc generate –module –no-fp –retpoline –uaccess /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxNetFlt.o
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c: In function ‘vboxNetFltNeedsLinkState’:
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c47: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘const struct ethtool_ops’
1761 | if (pDev->ethtool_ops && pDev->ethtool_ops->get_drvinfo)
| ^~
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c32: error: storage size of ‘Info’ isn’t known
1763 | struct ethtool_drvinfo Info;
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c20: error: ‘ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO’ undeclared (first use in this function)
1766 | Info.cmd = ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO;
| ^~~~
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c20: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c26: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘const struct ethtool_ops’
1767 | pDev->ethtool_ops->get_drvinfo(pDev, &Info);
| ^~
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c32: warning: unused variable ‘Info’ [-Wunused-variable]
1763 | struct ethtool_drvinfo Info;
| ^~~~
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:279: /tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile /tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
Can anyone tell me what's wrong, and how to fix?
make: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile-footer.gmk:117: vboxnetflt] Error 2
Anyone know what the issue is?
/sbin/vboxconfig Errors on Fedora 33
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Re: /sbin/vboxconfig Errors on Fedora 33
Which version of Vbox did you try to install? 6.1.18 or 6.1.20?
Re: /sbin/vboxconfig Errors on Fedora 33
From the looks of it, you likely tried to install 6.1.18 and got the netflt error described here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20198
There's a patch in that ticket which involves adding a single line of code to one of the vbox driver source files before running vboxconfig.
I believe this was corrected in 6.1.20 since I recently upgraded to 20 from 18 and didn't see the vboxconfig error.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20198
There's a patch in that ticket which involves adding a single line of code to one of the vbox driver source files before running vboxconfig.
I believe this was corrected in 6.1.20 since I recently upgraded to 20 from 18 and didn't see the vboxconfig error.
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Re: /sbin/vboxconfig Errors on Fedora 33
Never mind. I blew away the install, and did a dnf install. It seems to run now, though it's stuck at creating the virtual machine, with a Windows 10 boot SSD.