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VirtualBox killed on my sys with upgrade from 7.10 to 8.4

Asked by deweydiana@gmail.com

I had just about worked out all the bugs (except USB access) on Virtual Box running on the Ubuntu 7.10 platform giving me access to XP when absolutely necessary, but when I upgraded to 8.4, Virtual Box died. I was told to reinstall. Did that four times but to no avail. I now get the following error message:

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VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic..
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

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I have no clue what to do now.

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#1

"Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic.."

---> make you sure, you have package "virtualbox-ose-modules" installed...

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Old_Soldier (charles.davis) said : 		#2

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-modules or install the puel version from the VirtualBox/ SunXvm website

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Andre Mangan (kyphi) said : 		#3

If you want to install VirtualBox from the repositories use the following sequence:

Remove the virtualbox components that you have currently installed - best done via Synaptic by total removal.

Then

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-17-generic

that will install the necessary components and you need to follow this by typing:

sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a <your username>

Then reboot.

If you get a message that the driver needs to be set up, type

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

This should install a functioning version of VirtualBox but it will be without USB support.

If you must have USB support, you need to do things differently.

Remove all previously installed modules of virtualbox.

Download the Hardy version from http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp

That will install all you need. Don't forget to install the guest additions for XP.

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