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Today I've had an automatic update on Ubuntu 8.10 and after this when I'm trying to start VirtualBox I'm getting this error:

VirtualBox - Error in sublibOsInit
VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE (rc=-1909)

And it suggest me to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Which I've did with sudo, but it have not changed anything. And I have DKMS installed, I've checked in synaptic package manager.

It might be because I've recently installed 3.0.4 version then because there was no network I've installed 2.0 back, but may be vboxdrv is from 3.0.4? How can I change it? Or what can I do to run VirtualBox again?

Did you install the older version over the new one?
Can you uninstall VBox and then install the version that you want to use?
I did a VB down grade of VBox on Ubuntu and uninstalled first and had no problems.

Perryg wrote:Did you install the older version over the new one?
Can you uninstall VBox and then install the version that you want to use?
I did a VB down grade of VBox on Ubuntu and uninstalled first and had no problems.

Thank you I've did it and it helped, I've uninstalled it and installed again through synaptic package manager.
I would like to upgrade to 3.0.4 but when I did it last time it didn't have network connection is there a fix for it now?

I would like to upgrade to 3.0.4 but when I did it last time it didn't have network connection is there a fix for it now?

My experience with things not working properly when upgrading is sometimes things goes haywire. By uninstalling before you install the new version you eliminate this problem for the most part.
I have version 3.0.4 on Windows and Linux PC's ant they all have network access.

Perryg wrote:

I would like to upgrade to 3.0.4 but when I did it last time it didn't have network connection is there a fix for it now?

My experience with things not working properly when upgrading is sometimes things goes haywire. By uninstalling before you install the new version you eliminate this problem for the most part.
I have version 3.0.4 on Windows and Linux PC's ant they all have network access.

Have it worked well with VM created in 2.* and then upgraded to 3.0.4? By the way, what are the advantages of 3.0.4 you like? (Now my only reason to upgrade is the nagging pop-up telling me that there is an upgrade)

You can turn the update notification off in the preferences under the program GUI, File, Preference, update. Or you can set it to check at different times.
I really don't use any of the new features, but bug fixes and improvements are another reason to upgrade. Go to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog and you can see what has changed and been fixed.

Perryg wrote:You can turn the update notification off in the preferences under the program GUI, File, Preference, update. Or you can set it to check at different times.
I really don't use any of the new features, but bug fixes and improvements are another reason to upgrade. Go to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog and you can see what has changed and been fixed.

Thank you, I've upgrade to 3.0.4 and this time everything is ok. Isn't there a way of checking it, may be a checksum so that it will self-check and see if something must be reinstalled.