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tonkaxxx

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Registered: 2024-08-02

Posts: 5

VM Virtualbox kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

Hello, i want to install Kali on vbox, but i catch kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) exception.
I reinstalled it, downloaded virtualbox-host-modules-arch and linux-headers. i tried to ezecute /sbin/vboxconfing, but there was nothing. here is logs or what:
VM Name: kali-linux-2024.2-virtualbox-amd64

The virtual machine 'kali-linux-2024.2-virtualbox-amd64' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)
Component:
MachineWrap
Interface:
IMachine {300763af-5d6b-46e6-aa96-273eac15538a}

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 615

Re: VM Virtualbox kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

why not use kvm/qemu/libvirt/virt-manager?
any reason for virtualbox?
also: make sure you have iommu and virtualization enabled in bios

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,896

Re: VM Virtualbox kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

What does `uname -r` give?