I installed VirtualBox OSE off the OSS repositories and I have all of its dependencies installed, or the ones that I know I was following the instructions from the VirtualBox End-User Guide and the wiki article about it http://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox_Installation. After getting everything set up it works fine until I reboot my system, it seems the vboxdrv kernel module or /dev/vboxdrv does not like to stay installed on my system. In order to use VirtualBox I have to run the vboxdrv setup command everytime I restart or turn on my machine. If it wasn't for the fact that I have VirtualBox installed on a laptop instead of a desktop I would take the easy way out and only restart my system for kernel updates. I noticed that along with the kernel update today there was the KMP package and the kernel module package for VirtualBox caught my eye saying that it fixed three problems, none of the three fixes help out in my case. Here is the full error: VirtualBox - Error Failed to start the virtual machine Ubuntu 7.10. VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root. VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED). Result Code: 0x80004005 Component: Console Interface: IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4192-b909-22330f64ec45} The version of VirtualBox OSE (and related tools/packages) I have installed is: VirtualBox OSE 1.5.2-10.2 VirtualBox-guest-tools 1.5.2-10.2 VirtualBox-kmp-default 1.5.2_2.6.22.17_0.1-10.3 xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox 1.5.2-10.2 Looking at this raises a question about the version numbers, mainly the 10.x part. Does the -10.2 mean that I have 10.2 packages installed for VirtualBox under my 10.3 system? The only OSS repo I have on my system is the 10.3 one, so if I am right on my clueless guess then that means that the only part of VirtualBox that has been packaged for 10.3 is the kmp-default package and this will not have any effect on VirtualBox's over all preformace right?