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SCR4MBL3

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Registered: 2025-07-21

Posts: 2

Problem while trying to turn a virtual machine

Hi! I'm new to Arch Linux, today I tried to create a VM in VirtualBox, but this happened:

''' 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. '''

How can I fix it?

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Hi, what am I supposed to write here? I use Arch BTW?

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,147

Re: Problem while trying to turn a virtual machine

It's strongly recommended to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virtua … as_a_guest when setting up a VM with Arch. The answer to this question is given in the first two paragraphs

Last edited by V1del (2025-07-27 21:57:38)

SCR4MBL3

Member

Registered: 2025-07-21

Posts: 2

Re: Problem while trying to turn a virtual machine

thank you!!

Last edited by SCR4MBL3 (2025-07-28 18:27:46)

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Hi, what am I supposed to write here? I use Arch BTW?