Windows 10 guest fails to start in VirtualBox on Fedora 38
by terry-duell from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6G473)
I've been struggling to find a way around this..
Attempting to start Windows 10 guest in Virtualbox, I get the following message...
Code:Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is probably not loaded.You may not have kernel driver installed for kernel that is runnig, if so you may do as root: dnf install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r)So I try to run the suggested command...
Code:$sudo dnf install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
Package akmod-VirtualBox-7.0.12-1.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
Package kernel-devel-6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!The error message from Virtualbox went on to say...
Code:If you installed VirtualBox packages and don't want reboot the system, you may need load the kernel driver, doing as root: akmods; systemctl restart vboxdrv.serviceSo I tried that command...
Code:sudo akmods; systemctl restart vboxdrv.service
Checking kmods exist for 6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 [ OK ]
Job for vboxdrv.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status vboxdrv.service" and "journalctl -xeu vboxdrv.service" for details.The response to that was quite unintelligable, not much text but scattered over a few 'pages' of output, and quite difficult to capture.
It would seem that there have been a number of calls for help on this or similar issues, the responses to which I have tried to follow to no avail.
Anyone have any answers or ideas that might help?
Cheers,
Terry
Attempting to start Windows 10 guest in Virtualbox, I get the following message...
Code:Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is probably not loaded.You may not have kernel driver installed for kernel that is runnig, if so you may do as root: dnf install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r)So I try to run the suggested command...
Code:$sudo dnf install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
Package akmod-VirtualBox-7.0.12-1.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
Package kernel-devel-6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!The error message from Virtualbox went on to say...
Code:If you installed VirtualBox packages and don't want reboot the system, you may need load the kernel driver, doing as root: akmods; systemctl restart vboxdrv.serviceSo I tried that command...
Code:sudo akmods; systemctl restart vboxdrv.service
Checking kmods exist for 6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 [ OK ]
Job for vboxdrv.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status vboxdrv.service" and "journalctl -xeu vboxdrv.service" for details.The response to that was quite unintelligable, not much text but scattered over a few 'pages' of output, and quite difficult to capture.
It would seem that there have been a number of calls for help on this or similar issues, the responses to which I have tried to follow to no avail.
Anyone have any answers or ideas that might help?
Cheers,
Terry