$ 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.
# /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]
# /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]
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:
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.