Mageia 8, VirtualBox 6.1.28 update

[butchkn]

I was running VirtualBox 6.1.26 successfully, did a Mageia update which included VirtualBox update to 6.1.28 (multiple files). Now the Vboxhost will not start. removed VirtualBox, renistalled Virtualbox still vboixhost will not start. So, I am interested on which log file I can look at to see what is failing. Or if someone knows the solution please post some details

[doktor5000]

By Vboxhost you mean vboxhost.service ? That is basically only relevant for loading the 3 kernel modules which are required
Please post the output as root of of

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systemctl status vboxhost.service -al

You can also have a look at /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxhost.service to see what it does.
This would mean for some reason the kernel modules cannot be loaded. Please also post the output of

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rpm -qa | grep -iE "kernel|virtualbox" | sort
dkms status -m virtualbox

[morgano]

Our wiki page: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/VirtualBox

[isadora]

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[root@linux01 butch03]# https://madb.mageia.org/rpm/show/name/virtualbox-6.1.26-1.mga8.i586.rpm/source/0/release/8/arch/i586/t_media/4
bash: https://madb.mageia.org/rpm/show/name/virtualbox-6.1.26-1.mga8.i586.rpm/source/0/release/8/arch/i586/t_media/4: No such file or directory
[root@linux01 butch03]# systemctl status vboxhost.service -al
● vboxhost.service - VirtualBox host kernel driver loader
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxhost.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-10-26 15:48:29 MDT; 1 week 4 days ago
    Process: 1001 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/modprobe vboxdrv (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1001 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 1ms

Oct 26 15:48:29 linux01.kpalc.home systemd[1]: Starting VirtualBox host kernel driver loader...
Oct 26 15:48:29 linux01.kpalc.home modprobe[1001]: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.33-desktop-1.mga8
Oct 26 15:48:29 linux01.kpalc.home systemd[1]: vboxhost.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 26 15:48:29 linux01.kpalc.home systemd[1]: vboxhost.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 26 15:48:29 linux01.kpalc.home systemd[1]: Failed to start VirtualBox host kernel driver loader.
[root@linux01 butch03]#

[isadora]

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[root@linux01 butch03]# rpm -qa | grep -iE "kernel|virtualbox" | sort
dkms status -m virtualbox
kernel-desktop-5.10.16-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.10.30-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-5.10.33-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-5.10.33-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.10.37-2.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.10.43-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.10.62-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.10.70-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.10.75-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.1.14-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-5.14.10-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-desktop-5.7.19-3.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8
kernel-firmware-20201218-1.mga8
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20210716-1.mga8.nonfree
kernel-server-5.10.62-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-server-5.10.70-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-server-5.14.10-1.mga8-1-1.mga8
kernel-server-latest-5.14.10-1.mga8
kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.75-1.mga8
virtualbox-6.1.28-1.mga8
virtualbox-kernel-5.10.16-desktop-1.mga8-6.1.18-16.mga8
virtualbox-kernel-5.10.62-desktop-1.mga8-6.1.26-1.4.mga8
virtualbox-kernel-5.10.62-server-1.mga8-6.1.26-1.4.mga8
virtualbox-kernel-5.14.10-desktop-1.mga8-6.1.28-2.1.mga8
virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-6.1.28-2.1.mga8
virtualbox, 6.1.26-1.mga8, 5.10.62-desktop-1.mga8, x86_64: installed-binary from 5.10.62-desktop-1.mga8
virtualbox, 6.1.18-2.mga8, 5.10.16-desktop-1.mga8, x86_64: installed-binary from 5.10.16-desktop-1.mga8
virtualbox, 6.1.28-1.mga8, 5.14.10-desktop-1.mga8, x86_64: installed-binary from 5.14.10-desktop-1.mga8
virtualbox, 6.1.26-1.mga8, 5.10.62-server-1.mga8, x86_64: installed-binary from 5.10.62-serv

[morgano]

1) you could really clear out a lot of old kernels you dont use...

2) The log line
Oct 26 15:48:29 linux01.kpalc.home modprobe[1001]: modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.33-desktop-1.mga8
seem to indicate you boot kernel 5.10.33-desktop-1.mga8, but there is no corresponding virtualbox module.

3) The dkms status indicate the same, you have modules for four other kernels.
Try booting i.e kernel 5.14.10-desktop-1 instead.