#16155 closed defect (fixed)
VirtualBox kernel module broken with Linux 4.9 (RC3) and VirtualBox 5.1.8 / 5.1.9 (nightly)
Reported by: | aplocher | Owned by: | |
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Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.8 |
Keywords: | get_user_pages_remote, kernel, linux-4.9 | Cc: | |
Guest type: | all | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Attached is the vbox-install.log
When installing VirtualBox 5.1.8 or 5.1.9 on Linux Kernel 4.9 (RC3 - I think RC2, too), it comes back with an error:
Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation............. VirtualBox Version 5.1.9 r111724 (2016-11-03T17:15:53Z) installer Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox Python found: python, installing bindings... vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong. There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. VirtualBox has been installed successfully. You will find useful information about using VirtualBox in the user manual /opt/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf and in the user FAQ http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ We hope that you enjoy using VirtualBox.
The installation appears to work, but when attempting to boot a VM, I receive 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 '/sbin/vboxconfig' as root. where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.
This seems to be related to the following update to the Linux Kernel in 4.9, which caused the argument signature to change for "get_user_pages_remote":
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7
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Change History (5)
by , 8 years ago
Attachment: | vbox-install.log added |
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comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Running Linux Kernel 4.9.0, trying to compile VirtualBox 5.1.10 im still able to reproduce this bug.
I found others using Kernel 4.9.0 and VirtualBox 5.1.10 who are also able to reproduce this bug (especially Gentoo users).
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
Tested again with 5.1.12, neither works there.
Tested again with this pacht https://598800.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=454118
now it seems to work.
Duplicate of #16116.