On 5 Apr 2020 at 0:50, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Subject: Re: Virtual Box not loading vboxdrv on Clean
install of Fedora 31
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Date sent: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 00:50:50 -0700
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On 4/4/20 8:56 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
>> On 4/4/20 8:55 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 01:12:04 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II via
users"
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Does a simple "modprobe vboxdrv" also fails ?
>>>>
>>>> What gives: modinfo vboxdrv
>>>>
>>>
>>> # modprobe vboxdrv
>>> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Operation not
permitted
>>
>> Do you have secure boot enabled? If you do, you can't use self-compiled
>> modules unless you add a key to the EFI key storage.
>
> The old hard disk was not EFI setup, but this clean install did do and EFI
> setup? So, didn't change any settings in bios about secure boot, but
> perhaps it was set, and didn't matter since it was non-EFI.
> How would one add an EFI key??
> Currently accessing machine remotely, so hard to check the BIOS.
Look up "mokutil". You would have to sign the kernel module with your
key. And you need physical access to the computer to enroll the key.
Secure boot is enabled by default in EFI systems. Your easiest solution
would be to get to the computer or get someone else to disable secure
boot in the BIOS.
The best solution would be to switch to kvm, especially if you can't get
physical access.
Went by house where machine is, and went into BIOS. Shows that secure
boot was enabled and loaded, but it showed no option to disable it. Going
into details, it showed it had a windows OS setup, and had various options to
remove the keys, but wasn't clear if that would just disable the secure boot,
or would make the machine not boot any OS??
I'm assuming the Fedora 31 install setup the EFI boot using a windows
compatible option. Other than selected a standard partition setup instead of
LVM, I did the defaults on the install.
Will have to do some more research. It is an ASUS motherboard with quad
processor.
Thanks.
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