Error code

[Quartlow]

I've been running VB on mandriva20008 host with xp as the guest. today it gave up the ghost

got this error

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VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).


Result Code: 
0x80004005
Component: 
Console
Interface: 
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

running

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'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.

Returned this

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[root@localhost ~]# /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)
[root@localhost ~]#

Checking the logfile shows this

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Makefile:68: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again..  Stop.

So what the heck happened?

[sergio]

I got the same error on Fedora8_64.
Can Anyone help ?

[Quartlow]

I removed everything pertaining to VB, downloaded the RPM from VM and reinstalled and it worked. Go figure

[Karti]

Same here - Running 2008 Mandriva.

Can only assume it was one of the updates!

Looks like a reinstall then

K

[sergio]

Thanks to all. I resolved the issue by using YUM to install GCC, then ran the vboxdrv setup command and all is right with the world.