Steven,

On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 (my host o/s).  Vbox 1.6 has been running fine with
> WinXp as a guest o/s.  I upgraded my kernel with the updates that came
> over the holiday weekend and wham...something is broken.
>
> Here's what I get when I try to start my virtual:
>
> Failed to start the virtual machine Win2KOEM.
>
> VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was
> either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason.
> Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as
> root.
>
> VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

Please install the packages

  linux-headers-generic

and

  linux-headers-`uname -r`

The linux-headers-generic package does most likely depend on the latter.
Then run this command again.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/

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