On Thursday 25 October 2007, Lawrence Nitz wrote: > No, I start Vbox cold either from a menu --and the control panel comes > up nicely. Failure occurs only when I try to power on a VM. > > I noted that the character control VBox responds with the warning: > "WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Try > > sudo /etc/init.d/virtualbox restart > > and if that is not successful, try to re-install the package....." > > There is no /etc/init.d/virtualbox.
Ok, this is a typo, we will fix that. Of course /etc/init.d/vboxdrv is meant. Hmm, could you check if the vboxdrv module is actually loaded (lsmod | grep vboxdrv)? How did you install VirtualBox? rpm -i or rpm -U? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de
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