FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

[zdavatz]

Hi

I just installed VirtualBox Version 1.5.2 OSE on my Gentoo with with Kernel 2.6.23.1 VirtualBox startsup fine but after building the vboxdrv module, it can not be found by /sbin/modprobe vboxdrv - I get FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

I done: cd ./out/linux.x86/release/bin/src make

Thank you for your Feedback.

Zeno

[Sander van Leeuwen]

If our binary package works, then you should take this up with the Gentoo guys. Perhaps you're doing something wrong or something is broken in their package.

[Michael Thayer]

Not a bug. AFAIK, modprobe will not load a module unless it is installed first. Unless you are developing, I suggest that you use a ready-packaged version of VirtualBox.

[Technologov]

Do: ./out/linux.x86/release/bin/src# insmod vboxdrv.ko

-Technologov

[Tim McCormack]

I tried installing VBox 1.5.0 from repository in Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon"), using the generic module. I received the same vboxdrv module error.

I managed to locate vboxdrv.ko but doing an insmod gave me an "Invalid module format" error.

[Frank Mehnert]

'invalid module format' means that the module does most probably not match your current running kernel. Please could you try to upgrade to 1.6.0?

[Tim McCormack]

Alright, found my problem. I had both the generic and 386 kernels installed, but 386 was still the default. Booting to the generic one solved my problem. (Still using 1.5.0)