On my Linux Mint 17.1 machine I regularly face an error starting a VM. This error occurs after every kernel update. It says that the VirtualBox kernel driver was not loaded.

This can be solved by reinstalling the virtualbox-dkms package:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox-dkms

And then the VirtualBox kernel drivers are loaded.

This workaround turned out fine for me, so I thought I could share it. Remark; updating the Addons can also help. Go to: File – Check for updates.

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