Hi everyone my issue is that i can’t load virtualbox kernel drivers on my manjaro instalation (i use linux60)
and whenever i’m running “sudo modprobe vboxdrv” I get :
“modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘vboxdrv’: Invalid argument”
Anyone know why this is happening ?
You don’t have the correct package. For linux60 it will be
sudo pacman -Syu linux60-virtualbox-host-modules
On Manjaro you can use
sudo vboxreload
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I am in no way an expert, especially not with virtualbox-related issues, but I do have virtualbox running her, and I also know I never did that modprobe to get it that way.
So I looked a bit deeper, searching pamac for all things virtualbox related:
$ pamac search virtualbox
[...]
virtualbox-host-dkms [Installed] 7.0.4-1 community
VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
virtualbox [Installed] 7.0.4-1 community
Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
Those are the only two packages virtualbox-related I have installed. And since you’re not talking about virtualbox itself, I decided to look into virtualbox-host-dkms:
$ pamac info virtualbox-host-dkms
Name : virtualbox-host-dkms
Version : 7.0.4-1
Description : VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
URL : https://virtualbox.org/
Licences : GPL custom:CDDL
Repository : community
Installed Size : 11.7 MB
Groups : --
Depends On : dkms gcc make
Optional Dependencies : --
Required By : virtualbox
Optional For : --
Provides : VIRTUALBOX-HOST-MODULES
Replaces : virtualbox-source virtualbox-host-source virtualbox-host-modules-lts
Conflicts With : virtualbox-source virtualbox-host-source
Packager : Christian Hesse <eworm@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Fri 18 Nov 2022 14:54:46
Install Date : Wed 07 Dec 2022 12:19:47
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Validated By : Signature
Backup files : --
But I didn’t gain much. I then decided to see if the kernel module (that’s a driver in Linux FAIK) is loaded:
$ lsmod | grep --ignore-case vb
vboxnetflt 32768 0
vboxnetadp 28672 0
vboxdrv 581632 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
And BINGO!
So it would seem you need to have virtualbox-host-dkms installed:
pamac install virtualbox-host-dkms
If you don’t have your kernel headers installed, which you need for -dkms packages, you can install the headers for all you kernels with:
pamac install $(pamac list --quiet --installed | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-headers"}' ORS=' ')
This will install the headers for all installed kernels.
Also make sure first you have the dkms package installed, from the extra repository:
pamac install dkms
Hope this helps!
Nice thanks a lot for the tips, just tested and it works fine seems dkms was missing