On 07/23/2011 04:57 PM, Fr David Ousley pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

After last week's "zypper up" update of VirtualBox (7/21), neither of my Windows guests will load (XP & 7). Linux 11.3 is the host. Error messsage:

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) 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. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

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Running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup produces:

Recompiling VirtualBox vboxadd kernel module, NOT. It has been packaged. done

So nothing happens. Rebooting has no effect. Since the updates were not a new version, I cannot roll back to the previous version.

Suggestions? Thanks

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On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 16:57 -0400, Fr David Ousley wrote:

After last week's "zypper up" update of VirtualBox (7/21), neither of my Windows guests will load (XP & 7). Linux 11.3 is the host. Error messsage:

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) 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. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

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Running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup produces:

Recompiling VirtualBox vboxadd kernel module, NOT. It has been packaged. done

So nothing happens. Rebooting has no effect. Since the updates were not a new version, I cannot roll back to the previous version.

Suggestions? Thanks

-- Fr David Ousley davidousley@verizon.net

Maybe this link could be useful http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22797 Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 Li-f-e | KDE 4.6.00r6 | GNOME 2.32.1 | GNOME3 | Mesa-Nouveau3d experimental video driver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:04:58 -0400, Ricardo Chung wrote:

On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 16:57 -0400, Fr David Ousley wrote:

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After last week's "zypper up" update of VirtualBox (7/21), neither of my Windows guests will load (XP & 7). Linux 11.3 is the host. Error messsage:

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

Maybe this link could be useful http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22797

Regards,

now solved: Following the advice of another post, I installed the version from Oracle rather than BuildSuse. It returned an error of not being able to find the kernel source, which, it turns out was not installed (this was at least part of the issue in the fourm post you suggested). After installing that, and rebuilding, all works. Thanks to one and all! dao -- Fr David Ousley davidousley@verizon.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org