[LinuxUsers] Virtualbox on Ubuntu Hardy after Recent Kernel Update

[Chris Louden]

I use virtualbox-3.0 not the virtualbox-ose. It preforms better IMHO.
Whenever the kernel is updated on my 9.04 system I need to run "sudo
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" before I can start any VM again.

-Chris



On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Randall Whitman <909linux at whizman.com> wrote:
>
> We run VirtualBox on Ubuntu-8.04 (as well as 9.04), and after recent Linux
> kernel update to 2.6.24-25, VirtualBox would throw errors about vboxdrv
> upon trying to start any VM.  Search results were for inapplicable versions
> of Ubuntu/VirtualBox/linux-kernel.  It appears (apt) Ubuntu Universe has not
> released virtualbox-ose-modules for 2.6.24-25 yet, whereas Ubuntu main has
> the linux-image-2.6.24-25 update.  We went in and copied misc/vbox*.ko
> from 2.6.24-24 and 2.6.24-25 in /lib/modules/, then depmod & modprobe vboxdrv,
> after which a VM seems to run OK so far.
> HtH if anyone else got hit by this.
>
> Randall - http://whizman.com
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