Hi all
Till this morning, I ran Windows 10 client on VirtualBox 6.1.24 on host Centos 8 stream kernel 4.18.0-315.el8 without problem (desktop).
I took the risk to do a "yum update" and as well as the kernel as the VirtualBox were updated: kernel going from 4.18.0-315.el8 to 4.18.0-326.el8 VirtualBox going from 6.1.24 to 6.1.26
But yum complained already :
... Installing: Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ VirtualBox-6.1 x86_64 6.1.26_145957_el8-1 virtualbox 86 M ... Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Installing : VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2
Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!
depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-drm.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-modeset.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-peermem.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-uvm.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia.ko.xz): No such file or directory
Verifying : SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Installed products updated.
Installed: SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64
Complete!
Vbox did not start my Windows 10 when I tried.
I also tried to install VirtualBox 6.0 and 5.2 with the same kind of error in yum.
I rebooted then the computer and started a previous kernel 4.18.0-310.el8 and reinstalled Virtualbox 6.1.26 now without those errors and it runs smooth as before. (Kernel 315 had the same vbox errors.)
However, when I went back to kernel 4.18.0-326 and tried starting there VirtualBox 6.1.26 again, he complained with :
... Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows10.
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. ...
(I tried that "/sbin/vboxconfig" but that tells me nonsense about registering because of EFI secure boot, but I did not change anything in the BIOS.)
or there is some conflict between the last kernels and VirtualBox?
cheers mathy