virtualbox 安装时Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) 错误的解决方法参照文章

1. Change to root User

su - ## OR ## sudo -i

2. Install Fedora or RHEL Repo Files

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/   ## Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12 users wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo   ## CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 users wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo

3. Update latest packages and check your kernel version

Update packages

yum update

Check that that you are running latest installed kernel version
Output of following commands version numbers should match:

rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1   uname -r

Note: If you got kernel update or run older kernel than newest installed then reboot:

reboot

4. Install following dependency packages

CentOS 6/5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6/5 needs EPEL repository, install it with following command:

## CentOS 6 and RHEL 6 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm   ## CentOS 5 and RHEL 5 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms   ## PAE kernel users install ## yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-PAE-devel dkms

5. Install VirtualBox Latest Version 4.2 (currently 4.2.6)

yum install VirtualBox-4.2

Note:
This command create automatically vboxusers group and VirtualBox user must be member of that group.
This command also build needed kernel modules.

Rebuild kernel modules with following command:

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup ## OR ## service vboxdrv setup

6. Add VirtualBox User(s) to vboxusers Group

Replace user_name with your own user name or some another real user name.

usermod -a -G vboxusers user_name

7. Start VirtualBox

Use launcher from menu or simply run:

VirtualBox

Troubleshooting

If you have problems with KERN_DIR parameter or your kernel directory is not automatically detected then set KERN_DIR environment variable manually, using following method:

## Current running kernel on Fedora ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`   ## Current running kernel on CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m`   ## Fedora example ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686   ## CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) example ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64   ## Export KERN_DIR ## export KERN_DIR

Check also:

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)