{"id":685,"date":"2021-07-23T19:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=685"},"modified":"2021-07-23T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:41:25","slug":"kernel-driver-not-installed-rc-1908-and-modprobe-vboxdrv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and modprobe vboxdrv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I created a new VM in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtualbox<\/a> on my <a href=\"https:\/\/pop.system76.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop_OS!<\/a> machine to install <a href=\"https:\/\/rockylinux.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Linux<\/a> but received the below error when trying to start the virtual machine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vboxerror.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vboxerror-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vboxerror-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vboxerror.png 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A quick search on the internet took me to the solution in <a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/920689\/how-to-fix-modprobe-vboxdrv-error-in-virtualbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/users\/550618\/ali-razmdideh\">Ali Razmdideh<\/a> for the answer. I&#8217;m posting the steps here in case I need to find it again quickly.<\/p>\n<p>From terminal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sudo apt update<\/li>\n<li>sudo apt install &#8211;reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms<\/li>\n<li>sudo modprobe vboxdrv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did not reboot and managed to start the virtual server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created a new VM in Virtualbox on my Pop_OS! machine to install Rocky Linux but received the below error when trying to start the virtual machine: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A quick search on the internet took me to the solution in this post. Thanks to Ali Razmdideh for the answer. I&#8217;m posting the steps here in case I need to find it again quickly. From terminal: sudo apt update sudo apt install &#8211;reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms sudo modprobe vboxdrv I did not reboot and managed to start the virtual server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[580,366,581,494,579,199],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-virtual-box","tag-kernel-driver-not-installed-rc-1908","tag-linux","tag-modprobe-vboxdrv","tag-pop_os","tag-rocky-linux","tag-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}