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Mater

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Registered: 2022-07-18

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Virtualbox "/sbin/vboxconfig: command not found"

Solution: After installing virtualbox one should reboot their system.

After getting the "The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded." error I run the suggested command, but it did not exist, there was no such file in the suggested location.

After running around with my head cut off I managed to find some dkms inconsistencies that I'm not too knowledged about to understand fully. I would guess the issue might lie in not having actual locations for "5.18.11-arch1-1" kernel, but then shouldn't /sbin/vboxconfig exist to help with that? (I'm making a lot of assumptions here.)

~]$ ls /usr/lib/modules/
5.15.55-1-lts  5.18.12-arch1-1

Here are the
virtualbox errors:

~]$ virtualbox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (5.18.11-arch1-1) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
^C
~]$
~]$ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
sudo: /sbin/vboxconfig: command not found
~]$
~]$ ls /sbin | grep vbox*
rcvboxdrv
vboxballoonctrl
vboxheadless
vboximg-mount
vboxmanage
vboxreload
vboxsdl
vboxwebsrv

dkms errors:

~]$ dkms status
vboxhost/6.1.34_OSE, 5.18.11-arch1-1, x86_64: built
vboxhost/6.1.34_OSE, 5.18.12-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
~]$ sudo dkms autoinstall
Error! The directory /usr/lib/modules/5.18.11-arch1-1 doesn't exist.
You cannot install a module onto a non-existant kernel.
~]$ pacman -Q | grep headers
linux-api-headers 5.17.5-2
linux-headers 5.18.12.arch1-1
linux-lts-headers 5.15.55-1

Thanks for any help!

Last edited by Mater (2022-07-19 00:53:49)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,676

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox "/sbin/vboxconfig: command not found"

Have you rebooted since upgrading the kernel? Was your /boot partition mounted when you upgraded the kernel?

Last edited by skunktrader (2022-07-19 00:08:57)

Mater

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Registered: 2022-07-18

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox "/sbin/vboxconfig: command not found"

Have you rebooted since upgrading the kernel? Was your /boot partition mounted when you upgraded the kernel?

bruh

thx love

Last edited by Mater (2022-07-19 00:43:18)