VM won't start after Hardy Update

Post by **frank** » 20. Jun 2008, 09:58

So, funnyname again: Did you install the correct kernel headers like described above? Did you then execute

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start

? If this script reports that there was no error, the correct kernel module should be loaded.

In general we suggest to install the dkms package on Ubuntu which will take care of recompiling the vboxdrv kernel module on kernel upgrade.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 20. Jun 2008, 10:41

Frank Mehnert wrote:So, funnyname again: Did you install the correct kernel headers like described above? Did you then execute
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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
? If this script reports that there was no error, the correct kernel module should be loaded.

In general we suggest to install the dkms package on Ubuntu which will take care of recompiling the vboxdrv kernel module on kernel upgrade.

Frank, DMKS does not always work. When I upgraded to the new kernel headers, 2.6.24-19, DKMS did not install the kernel module. I manually ran DKMS to build and install the module and VB still wouldn't start and give the error the module was not installed. Running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup did work. Could this be a VB bug, DKMS bug or kernel bug? I don't care much, as I can run the VMs just fine, it's just something to keep in mind that DKMS is not perfect. I had the same kind of issues with my video drivers. ATi uses DKMS and they sometimes fail to install correctly. Running DKMS manually often does the job, but here it didn't.

Also, did you guys checked the Suggestion forum? The ideas there could really help you.

funnyname · Post by **funnyname** » 23. Jun 2008, 22:32

Frank Mehnert wrote:So, funnyname again: Did you install the correct kernel headers like described above? Did you then execute
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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
? If this script reports that there was no error, the correct kernel module should be loaded.

In general we suggest to install the dkms package on Ubuntu which will take care of recompiling the vboxdrv kernel module on kernel upgrade.

I ran the command you suggested and got an error - no such file or directory and yes it is right - it is not there. I loaded the newest version on the Sun site. When I used the version from the Ubuntu repository - I could not get it to work, since I did not know all the additional packges to load. Somewhere on this forum was the suggestion to load the .deb file from Sun, which worked - until the kernel updated.