On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:39:05PM -0800, Bill Shannon wrote:
> After installing VirtualBox on Linux (Ubuntu), do I need to reboot
> in order to have the kernel modules installed?  I assume not.

That's my experience too; such a reboot should not be necesary.

> I've installed and uninstalled several versions of VirtualBox to
> try to get DVD writing to work (see my other thread).  Finally I
> needed to reboot in order to install other Ubuntu updates.  When
> booting, I get messages about installing the vboxdrv and vboxnet
> kernel modules, but both appear to fail with "bad exit status 101".

The manual recommends a:

   # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

whenever your kernel is upgraded, which might have occurred during
one of your Ubuntu updates. 

I'd give that a try.

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