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VirtualBox - Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
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Virtual Box Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is probably not loaded.You may not have kernel driver installed for kernel that is runnig, if so you may do as root:

$ yum install kmod-VirtualBox-$(uname -r) kmod-VirtualBox

On not stable versions of Fedora you need use akmods (because we don't have pre-built kmods) or for custom kernels, you may do instead as root:

$ yum install akmod-VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r); akmods

If you installed VirtualBox packages and don't had reboot the system, you may need load the kernel driver, doing as root:

$ systemctl restart systemd-modules-load.service

Finally, at ~/.bashrc add:

# Virtual Box - Kernel
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
export KERN_DIR
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