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Virtual box Error

Asked by HASHIR

While installing an OS in virtual box, the following error is coming:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine win2003.
Virtual machine 'win2003' has terminated unexpectedly during startup.
Details:-
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {99404f50-dd10-40d3-889b-dd2f79f1e95e}
                                        &
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute
'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.

Please help me to overcome the issue.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo apt-get install --reinstall dkms

May help

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HASHIR (h2hashir) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Wow, what a guess!!