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VBox not running
Posted: 1. Jan 2017, 17:11
by zAchAry
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$ virtualbox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (4.4.19-smp) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
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# /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
Unable to determine the software packaging system in use.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong.
Unable to determine the software packaging system in use.
There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
as root.
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 1. Jan 2017, 17:26
by mimosa
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 1. Jan 2017, 17:47
by zAchAry
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# /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
Unable to determine the software packaging system in use.
There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
as root.
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
usage : service start|stop|restart|list [service_name]
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 1. Jan 2017, 19:50
by mimosa
Please have a look at the topic I linked to and try what it suggests.
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 1. Jan 2017, 21:59
by laprjns
zAchAry wrote:The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (4.4.19-smp) or it failed to
Is there any reason why you still hare using kernel version 4.4.19. The current version in the repository is 4.4.38. I suggest that you update your kernel along with the kernel headers, kernel-firmware and kernel- module. Install / update kernel-source, and then do lilo -v and reboot into new kernel. Once rebooted, do the following as root:
I would avoid using the vboxconfig script as it assumes that you are using a Linux distribution which VirtualBox supports.
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 2. Jan 2017, 06:22
by zAchAry
GSlapt excludes packages: glibc-zoneinfo 2016j-noarch-1_slack14.2, kernel-firmware 20161211git-noarch-1, kernel-headers 4.4.38_smp-x86-1, kernel-huge-smp 4.4.38_smp-i686-1, kernel-modules-smp 4.4.38_smp-i686-1.
Last time I upgraded these packages using slapt-get, I had to reinstall Salix 14.2. I couldn't even access the HDD.
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# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 2. Jan 2017, 10:19
by djemos
You can build the kernel source package for any kernel version.
Download kernel
4.4.19 and put it in a folder kernel-source
Download everything from
here and save them in the same folder kernel-source
Then either run fakeroot slkbuild -X or sudo sh kernel-source.SlackBuild
You will have the kernel source package created. Install it and run sudo sh /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup to create the vbox modules for the kernel.
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 2. Jan 2017, 13:45
by laprjns
zAchAry wrote:GSlapt excludes packages: glibc-zoneinfo 2016j-noarch-1_slack14.2, kernel-firmware 20161211git-noarch-1, kernel-headers 4.4.38_smp-x86-1, kernel-huge-smp 4.4.38_smp-i686-1, kernel-modules-smp 4.4.38_smp-i686-1.
Only update the various kernel packages. Don't update the glibc-zoneinfo package.
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$ sudo slapt-get -i kernel-firmware kernel-headers kernel-huge-smp kernel-modules-smp kernel-source
Then after they are updated do;
Reboot into new kernel and try again to build the VirtualBox kernel modules by running the /etc/unit.d/vboxdrv script.
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 2. Jan 2017, 22:21
by mimosa
Shouldn't kernel-headers be left as it is? That's how I did my own recent upgrade, and all seems to be well.
Zachary, you can just install vbox's precompiled binary.
Re: VBox not running
Posted: 3. Jan 2017, 07:04
by zAchAry
mimosa wrote:Zachary, you can just install vbox's precompiled binary.
I downloaded
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... ux_x86.run from
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
Is this what you refer to?