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rado3105

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

I try to load vboxdrv and it shows this error: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.3.3-2-ARCH

I installed lts version, bin version from aur but none works.
The only one that works is classic virtualbox installed using pacman, but problem with this version is that usb is not working.
Can anybody help how to load vboxdrv modules?

uname -r
4.3.3-2-ARCH

Last edited by rado3105 (2016-01-05 18:45:44)

ewaller

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

Is this package installed: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … t-modules/   ?

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rado3105

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

that package if i want to install if I have installed virtualbox-bin it shows conflict...

ewaller

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

Sorry, I assumed you had followed this : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox
Is there a reason you are running virtualbox-bin from the AUR?

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ooo

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

The only one that works is classic virtualbox installed using pacman, but problem with this version is that usb is not working.

USB works fine for me with virtualbox from arch repos. Did you actually try this?
There used to be two editions of virtualbox, and USB used to work only with the closed source one, but that changed on version 4.0: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

ewaller

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

The only one that works is classic virtualbox installed using pacman, but problem with this version is that usb is not working.

USB works fine for me with virtualbox from arch repos. Did you actually try this?
There used to be two editions of virtualbox, and USB used to work only with the closed source one, but that changed on version 4.0: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

Missed that.  USB functionality requires virtualbox-ext-oracle

Here are the packages on my system -- USB works just dandy

ewaller@turing ~ 1027 %pacman -Qs virtualbox
local/virtualbox 5.0.12-1
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
local/virtualbox-ext-oracle 5.0.12-1
    Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
local/virtualbox-guest-iso 5.0.12-1
    The official VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO image
local/virtualbox-host-modules 5.0.12-2
    Host kernel modules for VirtualBox
ewaller@turing ~ 1028 %

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ooo

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

Missed that.  USB functionality requires virtualbox-ext-oracle

I don't have virtualbox-ext-oracle but at least my usb printer works fine on winxp guest.

[~] $ pacman -Qs virtualbox
local/virtualbox 5.0.12-1
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
local/virtualbox-host-dkms 5.0.12-1
    VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
local/virtualbox-host-modules 5.0.12-2
    Host kernel modules for VirtualBox

tom.ty89

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

I bet you are using the virtual OCHI controller and he wants EHCI/xHCI...

rado3105

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

I uninstalled that aur package. Installed virtulabox, virtualbox-host-modules, virtualbox-ext-oracle/aur/.
USB doesnt work.

then tryed this, without success:
sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup

Then I tryed to uninstall some packages:

Last edited by rado3105 (2016-01-06 09:20:03)

ooo

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Re: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.

Is your user in 'vboxusers' group?