Unable to Install VirtualBox Due to Missing Kernel Module
- by SoftTimur
I am trying to install VirtualBox on my Ubuntu.
I first tried to sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose in a terminal, but after the configuration step, it fails with an error:
No suitable module for running kernel found
When proceeding with starting virtualbox, I get this error:
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
So I tried the package from http://www.virtualbox.org/, but starting VirtualBox fails with:
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (2.6.38-8-generic-pae) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
So I ran sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup, but it fails too:
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
* Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
* Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.38-8-generic-pae cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/build or /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/source.
* Failed, trying without DKMS
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules
* Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
The contents of /var/log/vbox-install.log.
As I am stuck, I also tried to install kernel-devel with yum, still fruitless:
root@ubuntu# yum install kernel-devel
Setting up Install Process
No package kernel-devel available.
Nothing to do
Now I've no idea how to correct this. Any ideas?
