I have installed virtualbox on opensuse 11.2 64bit.
When I go to open a machine it says
“Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP.
The virtual machine ‘Windows XP’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.”
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
‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary."
I am not very good with these kinds of things, could anybody help?
I downloaded it from here Linux_Downloads - VirtualBox if that helps.
Is this automatically ran on certain setup? I’ve had the updater update the kernel twice but never had to do this. I don’t have XP running though, just Win7.
Also depends on how you installed Vbox. I Install the generic Linux package and compile the kernel modules. I need to reinstall after every Kernel update. This is no problem since it takes about 3 min. But if you installed via RPM the kernel modules are “supposed to be” pre linked and should sync with the new kernel. But sometimes this vbox repo may lag the kernel update and then you may need to run the setup to fix it.
