Comments on: Install DKMS-VirtualBox driver not installed: Error after updating to new Linux Kernel

By: kwame

kwame — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:12:00 +0000

how do i download DKMS, because i dont even have to install

By: Arihant Prasad

Arihant Prasad — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:02:00 +0000

found the solution……sudo apt -get install dkms is for ubuntu

(supervisior) yum install dkms is for fedora

By: Arihant Prasad

Arihant Prasad — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:29:00 +0000

doesn’t work.

i have installed fedora 16 – 3.2.6-3.fc16.x86_64
when i enter sudo apt-get install dkms it will ask for password when i do so it will say “whiteunicorn is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.”

if i first su followed by password after that if i enter the same command (without space between apt-get) it will say “sudo: apt-get: command not found”

and if i follow same procedure as above (this time with space between apt-get) it will say “sudo: apt: command not found”

and if i only enter apt -get install dkms it will say “bash: apt: command not found…”

By: Elgroper

Elgroper — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:41:00 +0000

You must install your linux-header for your flavour and version of linux, for the command below to work correctly.

sudo apt-get install dkms

By: Denfio

Denfio — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:56:00 +0000

i just installed ubuntu maverick 10.10 and I’m getting the same message:
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. Re-setup 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.

tried ‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’ but I get

Attempting to install using DKMS
removing old DKMS module vboxdrv version 3.1.2

——————————
Deleting module version: 3.1.2
completely from the DKMS tree.
——————————
Done.

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.1.2/source ->
/usr/src/vboxdrv-3.1.2

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping…

Building module:
cleaning build area….
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.35-22-generic -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.1.2/build….(bad exit status: 2)

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.1.2/build/ for more information.
0
0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms.py”, line 57, in
report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), ‘w’))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/var/crash/virtualbox-3.1.0.crash’
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (
echo;
echo ” ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.”;
echo ” include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.”;
echo ” Run ‘make oldconfig && make prepare’ on kernel src to fix it.”;
echo;
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0
gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.SUPDrv-linux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.4.5/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic/arch/x86/include -Iinclude -include include/generated/autoconf.h -Iubuntu/include -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -maccumulate-outgoing-args -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -I/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DCONFIG_VBOXDRV_AS_MISC -DRT_ARCH_X86 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DMODULE -D”KBUILD_STR(s)=#s” -D”KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPDrv_linux)” -D”KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxdrv)” -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/.tmp_SUPDrv-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c
In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/types.h:34,
from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:39,
from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:37:
/tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/types.h:100: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2

By: New LX User Steve

New LX User Steve — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:22:27 +0000

Using Mandriva, I got the error after installing Virtualbox OSE and creating my first machine, then trying to start it. So I installed DKMS package from download. Tried the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup command, which failed because of no such prog vboxdrv in that directory. listed directory and found that there is a process called ./virtualbox. executed ./virtualbox restart then ./virtualbox status which said that the kernel module was loaded. re started the Virtual box programme and my Win98 VM started up no problem….so hopefully it's fixed

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:32:58 +0000

I had hope, until I got file not found for the DKMS file.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:32:58 +0000

I had hope, until I got file not found for the DKMS file.

By: VBox

VBox — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:59:54 +0000

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta and had the problem with VBox as described above. Followed your instructions and problem solved, Thanks for helping, Stav

By: logicodifuso

logicodifuso — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:31:33 +0000

grandioso!!

bastante simple y directo!! estupendo post!!

saludos