dkms and rcvboxdrv are not working in 5.0.14 -> believed fixed in releases higher than 5.0.14

[Stéphane Charette]

Host is 64-bit Ubuntu 15.10. I do have DKMS installed. Upgraded today from VB 5.0.12 to 5.0.14.

Note there was a linux kernel update available in the last 24 hours, so when I upgraded VB, I noticed it upgraded the linux kernel as well.

Now when my host boots back up, VB guests wont start. It pops up a message box saying to run /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup. But when I try to run that command, even with sudo, it exits with Bad argument setup.

[Stéphane Charette]

screenshot showing the command I'm told to run but which doesn't work

[Stéphane Charette]

Found a manual workaround on the forum. Instead of running this as instructed by VB:

sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup

...try this:

sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

[Stéphane Charette]

Title contains a typo, but I cannot change it. I meant DKMS, not DKRM.

[Michael Thayer]

This should be fixed in the current test builds<1>. And I fixed the mis-type in the title, thank you.

<1> Testbuilds

[Frank Mehnert]

Someone please confirm the fix, thank you!

[adam r]

Reverting the previous version of the /sbin/rcvboxdrv fixes this particular the problem, but may introduce other bugs. See ​http://askubuntu.com/questions/724184/virtualbox-rcvboxdrv-setup-error-bad-argument-setup for content of this file.

[Michael Thayer]

Adam, did you try a test build?

[rvelaz]

Do you have an ETA on when a fix is going to be released?

[Frank Mehnert]

The above mentioned test builds contain the fix. And the next 5.0.x maintenance release will contain the fix (no ETA). As furthemore written about, doing

sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

will work as well, even if you didn't install a test build and the maintenance update is not available yet.

[Frank Mehnert]

Fix is part of VBox 5.0.16.