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VirtualBox 4.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 unable to run VM

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Like Ubuntu 13.10 VirtualBox Error Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

I am also having a problem I keep getting the following error :

Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! Your kernel headers    for kernel 3.8.0-25-generic cannot be found.

Please install the linux-headers-3.8.0-25-generic package,

or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located

 ...failed!

  (Failed, trying without DKMS)

Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!

  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

I am unable to start a Virtual Machine I installed from repository. Any ideas ?

EDIT:

When I start a vm I get :

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. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package     first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel     module if necessary.

EDIT

The same errors with VirtualBox4.2
EDIT

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.8.0-25-generic



Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package linux-headers-3.8.0-25-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'linux-headers-3.8.0-25-generic' has no installation candidate

EDIT UPDATE

Manually updated the kernel from 3.8.0.25 to 3.10.0-031000-generic and now it all works !

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answered 2 Years ago brellked · Accepted Answer

The installed kernel was absolute. Its headers is not any more in the repository. So the best thing to do is to update the kernel to last version in the repository.

Check which kernel running:

uname -a

Update the kernel, linux-generic is a meta package to keep current version of the kernel & its headers:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install linux-generic

Reboot, Check again:

uname -a

If it didn't work, then use Synaptic to install its headers or upgrade/install to the last kernel release (search for "linux").