问题
I have installed virtual box in my device using sudo apt install virtualbox-qt command.
But when I run virtualbox command or virtualbox --version command it gives me this error:
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
I searched a solution from the internet but it didn't work for me. How should I solve this?
update
when I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms U receive this error:
回答1:
It clearly states that you need to install the virtualbox-dkms packages. You can follow this steps to solve the problem.
- Install the virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
Once you install those packages you also need to do the reconfiguration:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox
If your problem is still not fixed try installing the headers:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
You can refer to this Virtualbox Wiki if any of the above won't work. Also, you may want to check this similar problem on Ubuntu 14.04
回答2:
Try this:
apt install --reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms
回答3:
The only thing that helped in my case was disabling the Ubuntu Secure Boot
I will quote an answer from Askubuntu:"You might have a kernel version greater than 4.4.0-20 which enforces that unsigned kernel modules are not to be allowed to run with Secure Boot enabled in BIOS"
Link to the Answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/777308/virtualbox-problem-kernel-module-is-not-loaded"
Link how to disable Secure Boot: http://itadminguide.com/disable-secure-boot-in-ubuntu/
After this you will most likely have another error but with Minikube, and to fix you'll have to Enable enable Virtualization in Bios
link: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/5456
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60350358/how-do-i-resolve-the-character-device-dev-vboxdrv-does-not-exist-error-in-ubu