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