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I am using Vbox on a Ubuntu host to run Arca Noae 503. Currently when starting the virtual machine of Arca Noae, I am getting an error message that the Vbox Linux driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv, the Vbox version is 6.0.4 r128413 (qt 5.9.5). The host is Ubuntu 18.04 on kernel 5.3.0-28 loaded on 01/17/20. The install of Vbox ran fine on 01/15/20. The error message indicates to run /sbin/vboxconfig as root which I have however it fails with the message “vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.log to find out what went wrong”, however I am unable to find in the log what to do differently. The file “vboxdrv.sh” permissions are root and executable. The error message also notes that there are permission problems with /dev/vboxdrv, however I can not find vboxdrv.sh in that path.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I added Virtualbox to the Debian sources list so that Vbox will update in the future when a new versions is released. I then installed version 6.1 and resolved all of the questions related to guest additions. The new install is working well and resolved all of the issues.

T. Moscow
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    When I have troubles like this I purge my installed virtualbox and re-install from here https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. – Stephen Boston Feb 08 '20 at 01:12
  • Are you a member of the vboxusers group? if not then usermod -a -G vboxusers [USERNAME] – da_kingpin Feb 08 '20 at 01:52
  • After reading again I see that you have been using vbox already. So that may not be you problem – da_kingpin Feb 08 '20 at 01:54
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    Please edit your question to add paragraphs - the wall of text is hard to read. Also, please clearly explain --step by step-- how you originally installed Virtualbox. It's clear that you didn't use the version in the Ubuntu Repositories, so we don't know what mistake or shortcut then is biting you now. – user535733 Feb 08 '20 at 03:24
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    Does this answer your question? VirtualBox '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' issue – karel Feb 08 '20 at 08:48
  • How did you install the new kernel? I'd say that anything else than apt-get install or apt install will cause you trouble, "don't do that" if you're an inexperienced user (= not aware of the plausible problems that come of it). – Hannu Feb 08 '20 at 11:36

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Update Virtualbox version (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) or downgrade kernel version

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0

VirtualBox 6.0.14 (released October 15 2019): support Linux 5.3

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Thanks for all of the suggestions. I added Virtualbox to the Debian sources list so that Vbox will update in the future when new versions are is a new relase. I then installed version 6.1 and resolved all of the questions related to guest additions. The new install is working well and resolved all of the issues.

T. Moscow
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