On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Bill Shannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Never got an answer to this, can anyone help?  Thanks.
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> If, after the system is up, I run "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start", it
>> seems to work with no complaints.  Ditto vboxnet.
>>
>> Is the error message during boot a real failure or is it spurious?
>> If it's real, why is it failing?
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its /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and if you have any errors, check /var/log/vbox-install.log

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