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Warning: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded.

Posted: 15. Apr 2020, 20:37
by har johnson
Hello,

I am trying to install virtual box on Ubuntu Bionic. I am not very tech savy so any help in as clear as possible terms would be much appreciated. Upon unpacking the package and attempting to run VirtualBox I am getting the following error:

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ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ VirtualBox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (4.18.0-15-generic) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5PrintSupport.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Does anyone know how to "recompile the kernel module" as it is suggesting? I am new to linux and all this stuff. I have tried running sudo /sbin/vboxconfig as it also mentions but it returns "command not found"

Any help to point me in the right direction would be awesome.

Thanks!

Re: Warning: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded.

Posted: 16. Apr 2020, 14:32
by har johnson
ello? Is there anybody out there out theree

Browsing through The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide...seems pretty straight forward. Confident i'll get this figure out within the next 32 years for sure : )