Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and modprobe vboxdrv
I created a new VM in Virtualbox on my Pop_OS! machine to install Rocky Linux but received the below error when trying to start the virtual machine:
A quick search on the internet took me to the solution in this post. Thanks to Ali Razmdideh for the answer. I’m posting the steps here in case I need to find it again quickly.
From terminal:
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install –reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms
- sudo modprobe vboxdrv
I did not reboot and managed to start the virtual server.
One Comment
Rick
I get the same error Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and modprobe vboxdrv . I’m tring to install Windows in Virtual box .As I tried this solve that was posted I get errors. I’m a newbe with Linux Mint still tring to learn. Theses are the solve and the error I get tring to run it
sudo apt update
sudo apt install –reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
sudo apt update
[sudo] password for rick:
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com wilma InRelease
Hit:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com wilma Release
Hit:3 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:4 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu groovy InRelease [6,259 B]
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Err:4 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu groovy InRelease
The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F
Hit:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:10 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jammy InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu groovy InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F
E: The repository ‘https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu groovy InRelease’ is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Any Help would be greatly aperciated