id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 5707 Unable to run Virtualbox on Fedora12 i386 Akshay "Hello Everyone, I have been trying to install Virtualbox on Fedora since 8 days (till date) asking in the IRC community of vbox as well as Fedora to search a solution to my problem. Some said that my pc (host) had guest additions installed and no one could actually sort out the acually problem. I keep getting an error which you may look up at http://imagebin.org/74719 I am putting down some information which might help you understand my error Fedora :- Fedora 12 i386 Kernel Version :- 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 VirtualBox Ver :- VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.0_55467_fedora12-1.i686 DKMS Installed Ver :- dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc12.noarch After running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv as root Error Output : (Cannot create device /dev/vboxdrv with major 10 and minor 57) dmesg O/P : http://pastebin.com/f36b98466 And Exact Command Line Procedure I followed while doing this :- http://pastebin.com/f7d78377d " defect closed other VirtualBox 3.1.0 duplicate other Linux