Description of problem: Since a few kernel upgrades the kernel modules for VirtualBox are no longer automatically updated. When attempting to start a VM after a kernel upgrade the following message is displayed "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is probably not loaded. If you installed or VirtualBox package recently you need to restart the computer for the driver to load. Alternatively, you may attempt to load the driver by issuing the following command with system administrator (root) privileges: '/etc/sysconfig/modules/VirtualBox.modules'" Running the indicated command gives the following result: modinfo: ERROR: Module vboxdrv not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module vboxnetflt not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module vboxnetadp not found. Up until the previous kernel release this could be fixed by installing the kmod-VirtualBox-`uname -r` package. However for the kernel that was installed with my latest update, being 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64, there is no kmod-VirtualBox package available. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel version: 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 VirtualBox version: 4.2.12 r84980 How reproducible: Try running a VM with the indicated kernel Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to kernel 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 2. Start VM from VirtualBox 3. Actual results: VM fails to start Expected results: VM runs as expected Additional info:
Report this to whomever you got the virtualbox modules from. Kmod in this context is the module-init-utils replacement. Fedora doesn't build or provide stand-alone kernel module packages, and we don't support VirtualBox.
(In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #1) > Report this to whomever you got the virtualbox modules from. Kmod in this > context is the module-init-utils replacement. Fedora doesn't build or > provide stand-alone kernel module packages, and we don't support VirtualBox. Sorry about this. Will take more care next time to check the supplier of the package.