[Solved] VBox on 14.04: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

[Jeff Bourdeau]

after upgrading my Ubuntu kernel

I receive this when starting my VMs
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 virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing

'modprobe vboxdrv'

as root.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.


Will a kernel upgrade always cause this ?

JF

[Jeff Bourdeau]

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-\*
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\*

removed and reinstall Vbox and still have this error



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 virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing

'modprobe vboxdrv'

as root.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

[Jeff Bourdeau]

a recent ubuntu updates ( think there were some kenerel updates in it)' fixed the problem
JF
UB 18.04
Kenrel 4.15.0-15-generic