-1909 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE) ubuntu 8.04

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buddhabadboy
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-1909 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE) ubuntu 8.04

Post by buddhabadboy »

Hello all.

Just letting you all know, that I did confirm i added my user account to the vboxusers group

/etc/group:
vboxusers:x:124:will,root

and I did a full reboot. still the same problem. what do I do now?

Thanks!

will ;)
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Post by Sasquatch »

Do you have /dev/vboxdrv? If not, then run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup or install the module from the repositories if you use the OSE version. If you use the binary, did you install the hardy version found at http://www.virtualbox.org/download of 1.5.6? 1.6.0 is not yet available, even though the folder is there.
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Post by buddhabadboy »

thanks for responding.

I went to "add remove programs" and installed the OSE version 1.5.6_OSE

root@buddhabadboy:/# ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 63 2008-05-01 16:51 /dev/vboxdrv

also, when I ran it the first time, it asked for the kernel module "general" which I intalled via synaptic...

will
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Post by Sasquatch »

Good that it works now. There is an issue I have to advise you on. NEVER, EVER, run Linux as root all the time. It can mess up your system big time if you're not carefull. Please, create a new user and work with that. This is also the default Ubuntu setting.
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buddhabadboy
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Post by buddhabadboy »

yea, i added a default users, when ubuntu prompted me to: "will"

and its this user that I run as. its this user that I added to the vboxusers group.

but it still complains about not having my user in the group....

any ideas?
taeschd
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same behaviourlike buddhaboy

Post by taeschd »

hello vb-supporters,

i checked the driver:
crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 63 2008-06-11 00:14 vboxdrv

and the group:
vboxusers:x:116:peter

and it won't run.

the error msg a bit more detailed:
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The VirtualBox support driver which is running is from a different version of VirtualBox. You can correct this by stopping all running instances of VirtualBox and reinstalling the software..
VBox status code: -1912 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_VERSION_MISMATCH).


Fehlercode:
0x80004005
Komponente:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}
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Post by Sasquatch »

Well, it appears that an upgrade is not done properly. If you installed an older version of VB OSE with the kernel modules, but forgot to update the kernel modules too when upgrading VB, reinstall the kernel modules.

It's also possible that you installed the OSE kernel modules while you run the PUEL version. If that is the case, then remove the OSE modules and reinstall the binary version.
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taeschd
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still this error

Post by taeschd »

i closed vb, with synaptic i deinstalled everything i found regarding vb, i deleted it on the disk, i installed it again with synaptic, and the same error is displayed...
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