Virtualbox Installation Issues (vboxdrv not found)

azurepancake · 2014-07-27 21:36:16

Hello folks,

I just installed a fresh version of Arch Linux and I'm attempting to install Virtualbox upon it. After installing Virtualbox successfully, the virtualbox-host-modules package and qt4, I attempted to start the application, which gives the below error message:

WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (3.14.13-1-lts) or it failed to
         load. Please reinstall the kernel module virtualbox-host-modules or
         if you don't use our stock kernel compile the modules with

           sudo dkms autoinstall

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Failed to open the X11 display!

I then ran depmod -a and attempted to modprobe the "vboxdrv" module, which gives the follow error message:

modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

Note that I am running all of the above commands as the "root" user. After no success, I rebooted the machine and tried again with no such luck.

My kernel version is: 3.14.13-1-lts. Does anyone happen to have any ideas?

Last edited by azurepancake (2014-07-27 21:37:32)

Slithery · 2014-07-27 22:20:42

You need virtualbox-host-modules-lts if you're using the LTS kernel.

Module versions always have to match the version of the running kernel.

Last edited by Slithery (2014-07-27 22:21:50)

azurepancake · 2014-07-27 22:30:16

That did the trick! Thanks slithery!

I didn't even know there is a "vanilla kernel" and a "lts" kernel or what the difference is. I guess I should of caught that one..

Thanks again.

Arch Linux

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Virtualbox Installation Issues (vboxdrv not found)

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Re: Virtualbox Installation Issues (vboxdrv not found)

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