I installed virtualbox with sudo pacman -S virtualbox, and it can’t start the virtual machine:
Kernel driver not installed(rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux Kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing '/sbin/vboxconfig' as root.
If your system has EFI Secure Boot enabled you may also need to sign the kernel modules(vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system;s documentation for more information.
where suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.
I tried to config with sudo /sbin/vboxconfig, but in /sbin there is no vboxconfig. I tried signing modules until I realised that my laptop does not gave secureboot. modeprobe vboxdriver failed as well with the message modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/5.15.12-1-MANJARO. I also tried reinstalling vbox, yet nothing worked. I am currently out of ideas except making my own kernel, but I am pretty sure that this might be a bad idea.
To install VirtualBox, you need to install the packages virtualbox and linux*-virtualbox-host-modules. The latter must match the version of the kernel you are running.
Installing linux515-virtualbox-host-modules did the job. I didn’t know that manjaro has it’s own wiki page, just switched from mint and used for the first time manjaro. Wish I knew it had a wiki page. Yet, I think it would have been nice if pacman installed this dependency by itself even if I wouldn’t have gathered that much experience.
Also thank you manjaro forum community for replying so fast, I appreaciate your effort.
What I have learned from this is that VirtualBox needs a kernel module, there is a group named vboxusers and to always search for a wiki, no matter what distro you use.
