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1. This particular problem kept me busy the whole day....and in fact I reached a point of frustration that I should switch back to Ubuntu that I was earlier using.......so the problem goes like when I install virtual box via the rps and yum commands ...I used to invariably get some odd message that mostly included the following :
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. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
2. I would not actually lie about it...but i checked about so many forums that gave relatively the same solutions that you would have mostly found out by now...but to no avail...so the two command simple solution that would make you VB run like a horse without any issues goes like this :
yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-PAE-devel
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
offcourse you have to run this as a su -
3. Do let me know if u r stuck on this again...the sets of commands that I run since morning as root are produced below for info only.BUt I am sure the commands above would solve your problem.
21 wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
22 yum update
23 rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1
24 uname -r
25 reboot
26 rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
27 pwd
28 cd /etc/init.d/
29 ls
30 cd vboxdrv
31 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
32 cd /var/log/
33 more vbox-install.log
34 cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
35 wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
36 yum update
37 yum install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel
dkms
38 yum install VirtualBox-4.2
39 virtualbox
40 KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64
41 export KERN_DIR
42 yum update virtualbox-4.2
43 aptitude update
44 yum install dkms gcc
45 yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
46 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
47 more /var/log/vbox-install.log
49 wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
50 uname -r
53 rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1
54 uname -r
55 service vboxdrv setup
56 uname -r
57 KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE
58 export KERN_DIR
59 virtualbox
60 usermod -a -G vboxusers duqu
61 virtualbox
62 apt-get install dkms
63 wget install dkms
64 uname -r
65 rpm -q kernel-devel
66 uname -r
67 virtualbox
68 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
69 more /var/log/vbox-install.log
70 KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE
71 export KERN_DIR
72 virtualbox
73 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
74 uname -r
75 yum install kernel-headers-3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE
76 exit
77 yum install kernel-headers gcc
78 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
79 exit
81 yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-
PAE-devel
82 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
