On 09/05/2014 10:42 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 09/05/14 11:11, Fred Smith wrote: >> So, lessee here... >> >> you want to install some Linux into a VM on VirtualBox?? without having >> to "waste" a blank CD/DVD? >> >> easy to do... >> >> in VB, once you've created the VM but before you do the install, select >> the VM into which you wish to install, click "Settings", click "Storage", >> under the "Storage tree" select whatever is shown as the contents of the >> "ide" controller (in my case it's "empty"), then under "Attributes", >> click the little CD icon and browse to the ISO you want to install by >> clicking "choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file". Then click the OK button, >> and fire up your VM and do the installation. Bob's your uncle!:) > > > Ok, so now when I click on start: > > Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) > > The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is probably not loaded. > If you installed or VirtualBox package recently you need to restart the computer for the driver to load. > > > > I see this: > > [bobg@box10 ~]$ locate vboxdrv > /etc/udev/rules.d/90-vboxdrv.rules > > What am I doing wrong, this shouldn't be so complicated? Or is it? > > Thanks, > > Bob > How did you install VirtualBox (via kmod/akmod or from virtualbox.org)? Have you recently updated your kernel? If you've done the latter then you'll need to either reboot and let akmod rebuild a VirtualBox kmod or you'll need to reinstall the VirtualBox app that you downloaded from virtualbox.org to get the vboxdrv rebuilt and loaded. Kevin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
