| VBox & VMware in SecureBoot Linux (2016 Update) 6 | |
| 11 Jul, 2016 (updated on 11/07/2016) | |
| Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing 'etc/init.d/vobxdrv setup' as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. | |
| If you have a Linux system running in Secure Boot and you install VirtualBox or VMware player you will see, with some frustration, that you won’t be able to run any VMs. | |
| This post also applies if you are running your system with module signature verification enabled (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG) even if it’s not running in Secure Boot. | |
| This is an old issue, and I’ve already written about it in another post almost 2 years ago, but at this point some degree of imagination is needed to succeed following that gui |
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