On Friday 30 January 2009, Peter Schow wrote: > 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.
As you error messages about a 'bad exit status 101' I assume you have installed the dkms package. Which output do you get when entering dkms status ? Also, as already mentioned, please check the file /var/log/vbox-install.log for errors. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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