Virtualbox and kernel 5.10 not working

mnellemann

Hi,

It looks like there's no vboxdrv for the 5.10 kernel in Solus 4.2.

modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.12-171.current

Is there any easy way to rebuild these modules against the current kernel?

Br,
Mark

CorvusRuber

Did you install virtualboxor virtualbox-current ?
Because the first one is the package for the LTS kernel, and the second one (duh) for the current kernel (5.10, in this case).
If you try to run it on the wrong kernel you'll get an error (by the way, I have VirtualBox installed and it work without problems. virtualbox-current on kernel current, of course).

mnellemann

Installed virtualbox , didn't see there was a -current before now.
Thanks! 🙂

CorvusRuber

Beware: by installing virtualbox you will have downloaded (as a dependency) the LTS kernel. Take a look and uninstall it if you don't need it.

kyrios

This kind of worries can be avoided or solved by reading the doc : https://getsol.us/articles/software/virtualbox/en/