VirtualBox doesn't load after 12.04 upgrade

Question

After upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04, virtual box stopped working.

I've run the following to try to fix it:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install dkms
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

but when i run the last command I get:

bash: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory

When I try

sudo /etc/init.d/virtualbox start

I get:

 * Starting VirtualBox kernel modules
 * No suitable module for running kernel found

I've also tried:

sudo dkms install virtualbox/4.1.2

and got:

Error! Could not find module source directory.
Directory: /usr/src/virtualbox-4.1.2 does not exist.

Edit:

I've also tried installing linux headers:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

but they were already installed.

From what I've read re-installing may not fix the problem. Is there a way I can fix virtual box?

Edit: reinstalling virtualbox fixed the problem

Thanks.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. Here is what worked for me:

This may be required if you get a kernel sources not found type of error:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Then reconfigure the relevant packages to kick them in to rebuilding.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox

Answer 2

I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling virtualbox using apt-get. It saw that there were kernel parts missing and installed them.

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Answer 3

This worked for me too:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox

However, I had to add:

sudo modprobe vboxdrv

Answer 4

You are using the wrong version for building the dkms. Try this:

sudo dkms install virtualbox/4.1.12

It appears to have worked for me. This is after you install the virtualbox-dkms package of course.

Answer 5

This answer is based on @curtis's answer, apparenly the answer's version specific

You are using the wrong version for building the dkms. Try this:

sudo dkms install virtualbox/4.1.12

It appears to have worked for me. This is after you install the virtualbox-dkms package of course.

the version can be changed (in bold given in the quotation).

So try:

ls -d /usr/src/virtualbox*

which will give you something like

/usr/src/virtualbox-version

now take version and use it in the command above like

sudo dkms install virtualbox/version

If that is not giving you

Module virtualbox/version already installed on kernel kernelVersion-generic/architecture

run this following commands after that(taken from other answers on the post)

• rebuilding just the kernel modules

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms

• reinstalling

  sudo apt-get remove virtualbox && sudo apt-get install virtualbox

and if required, load the module sudo modprobe vboxdrv

if DKMS is showing error that some kernel is missing, then just install the kernel and then rebuild/reinstall virtualbox.

EDIT: apparently this is also exist on 12.10