Virtual Box Wont Start

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Mon Oct 27 15:07:28 UTC 2008


2008/10/26 sirjeep <sirjeep at gmail.com>:
> I upgraded to 8.10 last night and now Virtual Box wont start.  I get a
> message...
>
>
> VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was
> either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason.
> Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.
> VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).
>
>

Do what it says..

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Job done.

Cheers,
Al.




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