id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 1485,Error inserting vboxdrv: Cannot allocate memory,László Monda,,"[http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/2008-May/003192.html I've been told on the forum] to report this issue as a bug, so I do so: As an Ubuntu user who has recently upgraded to 4G RAM, I had to compile a custom kernel with high memory support because Ubuntu doesn't ship such a kernel with restricted drivers which I happen to use. Next, I've installed virtualbox_1.6.0-30421_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb successfully. {{{ root@whisper:~# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module * done. * Removing old VirtualBox kernel module * done. * Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module * done. * Starting VirtualBox kernel module * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why root@whisper:~# dmesg [ 1608.644113] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently... [ 1608.644117] vboxdrv: Successfully done. [ 1608.644119] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores. [ 1608.644131] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 u64DiffCores=406. root@whisper:~# lsmod | grep vboxdrv root@whisper:~# modprobe vboxdrv FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/2.6.24-whisper-2008-05-03/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Cannot allocate memory root@whisper:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4139832 1190780 2949052 0 55336 735604 -/+ buffers/cache: 399840 3739992 Swap: 0 0 0 }}} Considering the amount of free memory, it's impossible for vboxdrv to not to have enough memory. ",defect,closed,host support,VirtualBox 1.6.0,fixed,,,other,Linux