[xubuntu-users] Virtual Box Lost

Pasi Lallinaho pasi at shimmerproject.org
Thu May 17 17:50:20 UTC 2012


On 05/17/2012 08:47 PM, Michael Comperchio wrote:
> Ok, so I got fed up trying to get the NVIDIA drivers working again in
> *Oneiric Ocelot, so I ran the command line distro updater...
> marvelous, I've got X back. But I've lost VirtualBox!!!!!
>
> From the popup window....
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> *
>
> The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or
> there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the
> kernel module by executing
>
> '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
>

Please run this from terminal;

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

>
> as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install
> the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel
> changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> I am not really that knowledgeable about kernal stuff ... HELP!
>

Cheers,
Pasi

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