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blueblur112198

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Registered: 2014-05-27

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[SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

I think I have all of the correct packages installed. I installed all of the following packages from the official repos.

virtualbox-guest-dkms
virtualbox-guest-modules
virtualbox-host-dkms
virtualbox-host-modules

However, when I do "modprobe vboxdrv" it gives me the following.

modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

I reinstalled all of those packages and tried again with the same result.

This is what happens if I try to start a VM.

So the modules are not there even though those packages are installed.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?

EDIT: I don't know what I did to fix it, but maybe it was the find /lib/ -name vbox\* -print command that fixed it.
It works though! Thanks again for all of your help.

Last edited by blueblur112198 (2014-05-28 14:47:56)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

There is an open bug on the bug tracker about this - it seems the post install script for virtualbox packages aren't doing what they're supposed to.

See the solution/workaround here

Last edited by Trilby (2014-05-27 21:13:18)

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blueblur112198

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

insmod: ERROR: could not load module vboxdrv: No such file or directory

I don't think this is the same thing. In the bug, insmod works, but here it doesn't.

EDIT: I just tried the solution in your link, but that didn't work. I still got the same result from both modprobe and insmod.

Last edited by blueblur112198 (2014-05-27 21:23:42)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

Maybe you updated your kernel without rebooting.   Ensure that uname -a  and pacman -Qi linux report the exact same revision.

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blueblur112198

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

pacman:

Name           : linux
Version        : 3.14.4-1
Description    : The Linux kernel and modules
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.kernel.org/
Licenses       : GPL2
Groups         : base
Provides       : kernel26=3.14.4
Depends On     : coreutils  linux-firmware  kmod  mkinitcpio>=0.7
Optional Deps  : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed]
Required By    : virtualbox-guest-modules  virtualbox-host-modules
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : kernel26
Replaces       : kernel26
Installed Size : 71943.00 KiB
Packager       : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Build Date     : Tue 13 May 2014 10:46:00 AM EDT
Install Date   : Sun 18 May 2014 03:35:34 PM EDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : SHA256 Sum

uname:

Linux Hunters-Laptop 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 13 16:41:39 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Does that look right?

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

Does that look right?

Yes. 

What does find /lib/ -name vbox\* -print have to say?

Last edited by ewaller (2014-05-27 21:47:59)

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blueblur112198

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxnetadp.ko.gz
/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxsf.ko.gz
/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxnetflt.ko.gz
/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxvideo.ko.gz
/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxguest.ko.gz
/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxpci.ko.gz
/lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/vboxdrv.ko.gz
/lib/systemd/system/vboxweb.service
/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv

That's the output.

EDIT: After doing this it just worked. Idk what happened, but now I can start VM's without any trouble at all.
Thanks for your help. I'll edit the OP and lock the topic now.

Last edited by blueblur112198 (2014-05-28 14:45:47)

keshara.dorakumbura

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Re: [SOLVED] I cannot start any VM's in Virtualbox.

Today, i ran into this same specific issue.

But as the solution saying it solved the problem by doing find /lib/ -name vbox\* -print, I think it do nothing other than listing the files that starts with the name "vbox" in /lib directory. Actually the reason it get solved is somewhere in the troubleshooting you might execute depmod $(uname -r), which causes to build module dependency file, so that modprobe can use it to resolve module dependencies.

So anyone who ran into this issue;
First, install virtualbox additional packages by $ pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils
Then to build module dependency file, execute $ depmod $(uname -r)
Now you can do $modprobe to load the kernel module.

Last edited by keshara.dorakumbura (2014-09-16 02:57:22)