[vbox-users] After kernel upgrade vbox fails to start

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>> I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 (my host o/s).  Vbox 1.6 has been running fine with
>> WinXp as a guest o/s.  I upgraded my kernel with the updates that came
>> over the holiday weekend and wham...something is broken.
>>
>> Here's what I get when I try to start my virtual:
>>
>> Failed to start the virtual machine Win2KOEM.
>>
>> 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).
> 
> Please install the packages
> 
>   linux-headers-generic
> 
> and
> 
>   linux-headers-`uname -r`
> 
> The linux-headers-generic package does most likely depend on the latter.
> Then run this command again.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Frank

I reinstalled linux-headers-gneric and linux-headers-`uname -r`

Then I launched /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as su.  Still had the same 
problem with it failing the compile step.

So I reinstalled vBox from the latest.deb and this time it corrected 
itself, passing the compile step..

My virtual WinXP is running again.

Thanks very much for the help.
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