<div dir="ltr">Actually this has happened on some ubuntu systems. Perhaps this has been fixed already</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Scott Kitterman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@kitterman.com" target="_blank">ubuntu@kitterman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The virtualbox package recommends virtualbox-dkms. On an Ubuntu system in<br>
it's default configuration that would mean that anytime you installed<br>
virtualbox or virtualbox-qt, virtualbox-dkms would be installed. If Mint<br>
doesn't do that, you should probably take this up with Mint developers. It's<br>
not an Ubuntu issue.<br>
<br>
Scott K<br>
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On Thursday, December 04, 2014 01:29:27 AM Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:<br>
> Actually, Virtualbox should install those dependencies by default. Would<br>
> make sense if vbox won't run without it.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Simos Xenitellis <<a href="mailto:simos.lists@googlemail.com">simos.lists@googlemail.com</a><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Scott Richardson<br>
> ><br>
> > <<a href="mailto:scott.richardson@visionsystemsinc.com">scott.richardson@visionsystemsinc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > virtualbox-qt (4.3.10-dfsg-1) requires virtualbox-dkms. Without this, I<br>
> ><br>
> > get<br>
> ><br>
> > > the following error when I try to start a virtual machine:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)<br>
> > ><br>
> > > The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or<br>
> ><br>
> > there<br>
> ><br>
> > > is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel<br>
> > > module by executing<br>
> > ><br>
> > > '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'<br>
> > ><br>
> > > as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the<br>
> > > DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and<br>
> > > recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > However, /etc/init.d/vboxdrv does not exist. But if I install<br>
> > > virtualbox-dkms manually my virtual machine will start up. It seems like<br>
> > > virtualbox should at least suggest virtualbox-dkms be installed.<br>
> ><br>
> > The command should have been<br>
> ><br>
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms<br>
> ><br>
> > Perhaps the error message should be updated to the new command.<br>
> ><br>
> > Simos<br>
> ><br>
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