Cant run a vm with host fedora 30

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katana85
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Cant run a vm with host fedora 30

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Hello. I have installed virtualbox 6 in fedora 30. And after setup and starting a vm. It shows an error and ask me to run 'sudo /sbin/vboxconfig'.
I did so and it gave me this error.
vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.  If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may 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.
I used to have Ubuntu 18.04 and everything was working fine.

Please advice me on how to fix it.

Thanks,
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Re: Cant run a vm with host fedora 30

Post by socratis »

katana85 wrote:
Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
Did you run 'dmesg' after that? It specifically asks you to do it, so, did you?

Also, where did you get your VirtualBox from? I hope you didn't get it from the Fedora repository, but the official version from the Linux Downloads section of VirtualBox.
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katana85
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Re: Cant run a vm with host fedora 30

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I got the dmesg error massage attached in a file.
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Re: Cant run a vm with host fedora 30

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I couldn't see anything VirtualBox related. Are you sure you attached the output of 'dmesg' after you tried to install VirtualBox? Or you simply attached "a" generic dmesg output?
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