Ubunutu 18.04 kernel 5.4.0 suplibOsInit VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED ENOENT

[rtychko]

Failure to start vm, error seems to be independend on the image Bug is reproducible with host info ❯ uname --a Linux incbook 5.4.0-050400rc7-generic #201911102031 SMP Mon Nov 11 01:34:23 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

secure boot disabled

virtalbox install https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads version for bionic, VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.1.4 r136177 (Qt5.9.5)

image independent reproducible with latest dsl image from ​https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/Damn Small/4.4.10/dsl-4.4.10-x86.7z/download?use_mirror=netcologne

Error message

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine dsl-4.4.10-x86.

The virtual machine 'dsl-4.4.10-x86' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: MachineWrap Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing

'/sbin/vboxconfig'

as root.

If your system has EFI Secure Boot enabled you may also need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

attempts to fix/reinstall don't help

❯ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.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. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

[rtychko]

runs fine on Linux incbook 5.3.0-7629-generic #31~1581628854~18.04~2db8a7a-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 14 19:56:05 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

for a start, 5.4.0-050400rc7 is a development kernel that is out of date and we don't support development kernels anyways. Please first try to reproduce with the offical 5.4.X stable release train.

Then as the error message suggests:

Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.log to find out what went wrong.