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I attempted to create a Kali virtual machine on Ubuntu, but I cannot start it. Instead of it doing the expected thing and starting, it returns the following error message:

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

'/sbin/vboxconfig'

as root.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

How can I fix this and get my VM online?

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    This question does not seem to be off topic IMO. It's about VirtualBox, not Kali; the fact that it was Kali the OP tried to run in VirtualBox shouldn't matter, right?
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Dec 19, 2016 at 18:13
  • @GunnarHjalmarsson: On the other hand the issue here is clearly a missing kernel module. There's quite a bit of variance between distributions in that area (though Debian and Kali may happen to be similar enough in this particular case). Additionally this question doesn't add anything for Ubuntu users because we already have heaps of duplicates for it.
    – David Foerster
    Dec 19, 2016 at 19:33
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    @DavidFoerster: Yeah, maybe it's a duplicate anyway. OTOH then it should be marked as such. I may be oversensitive here, and the reason for it is that I see a tendency to perfunctorily close vote as soon as certain keywords are found in the question.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Dec 19, 2016 at 19:41
  • @GunnarHjalmarsson that the VirtualBox is running on Ubuntu was added by another user, and there's no evidence for it. I'm rolling back that edit.
    – muru
    Dec 20, 2016 at 0:46

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sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge virtualbox-dkms
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms

Thanks for the edit, typing from phone

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  • Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version (12.1ubuntu2). dkms is already the newest version (2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11.3). linux-headers-generic is already the newest version (4.4.0.53.56). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. N: Ignoring file '50unattended-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
    – joshua
    Dec 19, 2016 at 18:32
  • Try 'sudo modprobe vboxdrv' along with
    – Arijit Chatterjee
    Dec 19, 2016 at 18:50
  • when i tyoe the above comment i get this error
    – joshua
    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:42
  • Okay, let's retry. First, run all the commands as above. Also create a file 'vbox.conf' at /etc/modules-load.d. Secondly, open the vbox.conf file with text editor and write: vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxpci (one in every line, that's 4 lines). Save and exit. Thirdly, reboot. Hope it will work now.
    – Arijit Chatterjee
    Dec 20, 2016 at 15:41
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