I've got installed oracle virtualBox v.4.1.2_Ubuntu r38359.
The program VM starts with errors:
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.
(VirtualBox:5642): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(VirtualBox:5642): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(VirtualBox:5642): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(VirtualBox:5642): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
As supposed i've done:
1)
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-dkms
the answer:
virtualbox-ose is already the newest version.
virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version.
2)
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
answer:
linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic-pae is already the newest version.
If i try to launch virtual machine i got 2 windows:
1) The first:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine winxp.
The virtual machine 'winxp' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91}
2) The second:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.
Tried:
$sudo modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
;
$ /etc/init.d/virtualbox start
* Starting VirtualBox kernel modules
* No suitable module for running kernel found [fail]
Best Answer
Have you tried to build the kernel module?. It should have been builded during the installation, but it looks like it failed. You can try:
This should build the module.