Can not start VirtualBox on Fedora19

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I am getting the error message below on a Fredora 19 system when attempt to start VirualBox Any help will be greatly appreciated :

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 '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.

posted Oct 8, 2013 by Deepak Dasgupta

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Did you ran the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup script as root?

commented Oct 8, 2013 by Abhay Kulkarni

I did and it complained that "modprobe vboxdrv" failed. And verified that 'vboxdrv' is not in /dev.

commented Oct 8, 2013 by anonymous

And what's the complete error ? Looks like you don't have the kernel-headers / devel packeges so the module isn't being properly compiled.... we need the complete log to confirm it.

commented Oct 8, 2013 by anonymous

Have you installed DKMS?

commented Oct 8, 2013 by anonymous

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