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Vivus

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Registered: 2016-06-22

Posts: 28

VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

Hello,

if i try to start VM, i get an error:

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing

'/sbin/vboxconfig'

as root.

If your system has EFI Secure Boot enabled you may also need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT. 

I googled a bit and found a lot of solutions. Unfortunately, those solutions do not solve my problem.

What i did:

At first, i checked whether Secure Boot enabled? (it's not)
and reinstalled all packages.

# uname -a
Linux xyz 5.10.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:41:06 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# dmesg
vboxdrv: version magic '5.10.11-arch1-1 SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '5.10.12-arch1-1 SMP preempt mod_unload '

# modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Exec format error

# pacman -Qs virtualbox*
local/linux 5.10.12.arch1-1
    The Linux kernel and modules
local/virtualbox 6.1.18-1
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
local/virtualbox-guest-iso 6.1.18-1
    The official VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO image
local/virtualbox-guest-utils 6.1.18-1
    VirtualBox Guest userspace utilities
local/virtualbox-host-modules-arch 6.1.18-4
    Virtualbox host kernel modules for Arch Kernel

What else can i do?

Last edited by Vivus (2021-02-03 18:01:17)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,561

Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

Your virtualbox-host-modules-arch package is old. Partial update problem.

Edit: looks like you enabled testing without community-testing.

Last edited by Scimmia (2021-02-03 18:01:35)

Vivus

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Registered: 2016-06-22

Posts: 28

Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

what can i do? is there an update?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

Your virtualbox-host-modules-arch package is old. Partial update problem.

How so? The current repo version is 6.1.18-4 just like the OP.

The version in community-testing isn't, and they're running the kernel from testing.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

Yep, sorry. I only looked at the modules version not the kernel as well.

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Vivus

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Registered: 2016-06-22

Posts: 28

Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

can you help me to solve it?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … positories

Vivus

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Registered: 2016-06-22

Posts: 28

Re: VirtualBox Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

ups, ok it is working again. Thank you alot