VirtualBox

[Niles Rogoff]

have you tried manually running 'sudo modprobe vboxdrv'?

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>
wrote:

>
> (2014/10/01 18:37), Nils Kassube wrote:
>
>> Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>>
>>> I installed VirtualBox via the Software-Center. Xubuntu 14.04; 2 note
>>> PCs; plenty of RAM, HDD space
>>> Added the "name" of a virtual machine.
>>> When I try to start/run VB, I get the error:
>>> "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine "WinXP".
>>> "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)"
>>>
>> The kernel driver should be installed through DKMS automatically when
>> there is a new kernel. Therefore I suppose that the package
>> "virtualbox-dkms" is missing on your system.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>
>>  That is something I already found during the "Google frenzy".
> BUT .. not the case. Synaptic tells me, the package is right there. I even
> tried re-installing it.
>
>
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