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medicineman2500

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Registered: 2021-10-07

Posts: 66

Reboot required for virtualbox modules

Kernel: linux 5.16.4-arch1-1
Vbox:
Oracle VM VirtualBox VM Selector v6.1.32
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Upon installing virtualbox https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualBox and choosing

 virtualbox-host-modules-arch

option, I attempted to load the vboxdrv modules with

 sudo modprobe vboxdrv

and received the FATAL "module not found" error. I then tried to run

sudo vboxreload

and received several more of the same error, one for each of the vbox modules i.e. vboxdrv, vboxnetadp, and vboxnetflt.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,223

Re: Reboot required for virtualbox modules

Yes this is completely normal as the kernel you had before the update will have been 5.16.3 and not 5.16.4 for which you installed the virtualbox-modules.

Kernel modules need to match the kernels they are compiled for, if you had an update including the kernel you'll generally need to reboot as all packages at that point work on the assumption of the new kernel.

aqualatus

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Registered: 2021-12-18

Posts: 1

Re: Reboot required for virtualbox modules

In my case rebooting doesn't help.

sudo vboxreload

Unloading modules:
Loading modules: 
modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxnetadp not found in directory /lib/modules/5.16.4-arch1-1
modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxnetflt not found in directory /lib/modules/5.16.4-arch1-1
modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/5.16.4-arch1-1

I tried reinstalling the virtualbox package with

pacman -S virtualbox

but it doesn't help.

I also tried loading the module manually:

sudo modprobe vboxdrv

modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/5.16.4-arch1-1

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,726

Re: Reboot required for virtualbox modules

What version of virtualbox-host-modules-arch? Sounds like a partial update.

Edit: Wait, this is a hijack. aqualatus, it's unlikely your issue is the same.

Last edited by Scimmia (2022-01-31 13:43:48)