virtual box error

[francois]

Vbox error message in porteus xfce 3.1:

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The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'

as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary

[fanthom]

please show me output of following commands:

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uname -a
ls -al /usr/src

thanks

[francois]

Interesting!!

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root@porteus:~# uname -a
Linux porteus 3.17.4-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 12 12:48:28 Local time zone must be set-- x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Solo CPU    U3500  @ 1.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
root@porteus:~# ls -al /usr/src
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 4096 Dec 15 21:20 ./
drwxr-xr-x 100 root root  100 Dec 16 18:16 ../
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 Aug  3 12:52 linux -> linux-3.14.15/
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 4096 Dec 15 21:21 linux-3.14.15/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   69 Aug 15  2012 simple-scan-2.32.0.2/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root   98 Nov 27  2013 src2pkg/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   51 Dec 15 21:45 vboxguest-4.3.20 -> /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.20/src/vboxguest-4.3.20/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   28 Dec 15 21:45 vboxhost-4.3.20 -> /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost/
root@porteus:~#

[fanthom]

looks like you have old devel module activated (from 3.0.1 release).

[Nouatvs]

i runs the last porteus kde 32. the same error. My devel.xzm is the last module.

[francois]

@Nouatvs:

Do you remember if the vbox builder downloaded devel.xzm for you automatically before building the vbox package? This was my case.

[Nouatvs]

Apparently I was wrong .

[francois]

Apparently I was wrong .

About what?

[Nouatvs]

this links is error
The http://www.porteus.org/ ==>
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 534#p22534 ==>
http://ponce.cc/porteus/i486/current/ (Old module)

this link is ok
http://forum.porteus.org/ ==> (announcent)
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4109 ==>
http://dl.porteus.org/ ==>
http://dl.porteus.org/i486/current/ (new module)

[fanthom]

so is this issue resolved?

[Nouatvs]

Solved.
Virtualbox Works.
But the www.porteus.org say PORTEUS 3.0 RELEASED. Its old. forum.porteus..org is ok.

[francois]

This is not solved for me. Sorry for taking time. I will be able to test that this weekend. For this, I will have to boot in porteus xfce or lxqt 1) with and 2) without the devel.xzm and build vbox in always fresh mode. I have the impression that vbox 3.1, if not provided with the 3.1 devel.xzm will fetch 3.0 devel.

Thanks.

[beny]

hi francois have you done this cli command to rebuild the virtualbox kernel module? /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup,i have unpacked the devel.xzm and seem ok, the kernel is the last that run.