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I have had virtual box set up for about 1 1/2 weeks now without problems.
I had a hard time figuring out the right settings for the networking, but sure enough got that working good.
The host is Ubuntu 8.04 linux with a guest Windows XP installation.

well, as of this morning i tried to enter my guest Windows XP install and could not.
The error i received was:


VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic..
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).


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

I have no idea what has happened that caused this to happen.
I have seen many posts related to this subject but most of them were ( from what i could understand) problems with the initial installation and setup.

My problem is that i've already had this working and now all of a sudden it wont work at all anymore.

I really do hope that this is the last place i have to turn to for help on this subject.

Thanks in advance to anyone who could help me out or at least lead me to a pretty easy tutorial of how to fix it.

Have a look at this thread: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... tinstalled
and specifically the reply from Frank Mehnert (post #2 in the thread).

That fixed it for me, I had the same issue as you -VB installed just fine, I could run it, but after reboot I received the error that the kernel module wasn't loaded (I could fix it by re-installing the module - but only to next boot), Frank's suggestion fixed it for me.

Niels