ubuntu virtualbox kernel driver not installed

If this solution has not worked for you, leave us a comment explaining the problem you have and from Ubunlog we will try to help you as best we can.Hi. We hope that this post has helped you to recover the correct functioning of VirtualBox after updating the kernel or the system.

Once you have finished this process, restart the system and VirtualBox should work as usual. deb and run the following command to install it: Once downloaded, go to the directory where you downloaded the. deb package corresponding depending on the characteristics of your PC and your system. Go to the VirtualBox website and download the. Now, if for whatever the file vboxdrv not created, you will get an error when trying to execute the previous command, so before executing that command again you should do the following. To solve the problem, we must first reinstall the kernel module in the terminal with:

By the way, if you don't remember how permissions work in Linux, we remind you that a while ago in Ubunlog we dedicated an entry thereto. As he informs us, the problem is that the file / dev / vboxdrv not loaded o have permission problems. This error precisely describes us perfectly what we must do to solve it. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. Please reinstall the kernel module by executingĪs root. The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with / dev / vboxdrv. If you use VirtualBox frequently, and you have suddenly updated the system or the kernel, it may be that when trying to start VirtualBox as you have always done, you cannot do it due to an error similar to the following: In this post we will show you how easy it is to solve this problem and how we can make VirtualBox work correctly again. A fairly frequent problem related to the world of virtual machines, in this case VirtualBox, is that when we update the kernel or the system in general, the virtual machine stops working and there is no way to start it.

Ubuntu virtualbox kernel driver not installed