How to Install Oracle VirtualBox 6.0 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6

Written by Rahul, Updated on February 4, 2019

Virtualization Install, Oracle, VirtualBox, virtualization, VMs

Oracle VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. It installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems at the same time. Click here to read more about VirtualBox

Oracle has released its new major version VirtualBox 6.0.4 . In this release VirtualBox has improves stability and fixes regressions. To read more about this release read changelog. This article will help you to install Oracle VirtualBox 6.0 on CentOS and Redhat systems using Yum.

Step 1 – Add Required Yum Repositories

Firstly you are required to add VirtualBox yum repository in your system. Download repository file from its official site and place it under at /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo .First navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and use one of below commands as per your operating system.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo

The CentOS and RedHat users also required to add EPEL yum repository using one of the following commands.

### On CentOS/RHEL 7 ### 
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

### On CentOS/RHEL 6 ### 
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2 – Install Required Packages

Before installing VirtualBox make sure to install all required packages to run VirtualBox like kernel-headers, kernel-devels etc. Use the following command to install the required packages.

yum install gcc make patch  dkms qt libgomp
yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel fontforge binutils glibc-headers glibc-devel

After installing latest kernel and kernel headers, let’s reboot your system and start with Latest kernel.

reboot

Step 3 – Setup Environment Variable

VirtualBox installation required kernel source code to install required modules, So we need to configure environment variable KERN_DIR to which VirtualBox get kernel source code. In my case latest kernel source is available in 2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 directory under /usr/src/kernels/ . Make sure you are using correct source path.

export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`

Step 4 – Install Oracle VirtualBox and Setup

Use the following command to install VirtualBox using the yum command line tool. It will install the latest version of VirtualBox 5.2 on your system.

yum install VirtualBox-6.0

After installation, we need to rebuild kernel modules using the following command.

service vboxdrv setup

Step 5 – Launch VirtualBox

Use following command to start VirtualBox from X windows. You can switch to GUI mode using init 5 or startx commands from terminal.

virtualbox

Rahul

I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

57 Comments

DeanM Reply to DeanM
January 25, 2019 at 5:54 pm
Centos 7.6 (kernel 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64)
VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.24_128163_el7-1.x86_64
Rather than
sudo service vboxdrv setup
which others have pointed out fails, use:
sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
Monojit Reply to Monojit
February 22, 2018 at 11:02 am
]# vboxmanage -v
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
5.2.6r120293
Getting this error while installing on centos7. Any idea to fix this?
alberto Reply to alberto
November 26, 2017 at 3:31 pm
hi i have a quetion for you:
There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
how to resolve this problem???
Nibs Niven Reply to Nibs
November 21, 2017 at 11:56 pm
Your title is misleading. There is no Virtualbox release for Fedora 27.
- Rahul K. Reply to Rahul
  November 22, 2017 at 4:40 am
  Hi Nibs, Thanks for your comments, I have updated the title.
  Actually below page was opening but its opening 26 page.
  http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/27/
colebras Reply to colebras
February 22, 2017 at 11:41 am
Thank you, just what I needed. Worked perfect with CentOS 7.
I had to use:
/sbin/vboxconfig
instead:
service vboxdrv setup
Antonio Augusto Reply to Antonio
January 25, 2017 at 4:10 pm
I have instaled at Cents 7 and found the message:
Running transaction
Instalando : VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924_el7-1.x86_64 1/1
Creating group ‘vboxusers’. VM users must be member of that group!
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong.
There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig as root.
Verifying : VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924_el7-1.x86_64 1/1
Instalados:
VirtualBox-5.1.x86_64 0:5.1.14_112924_el7-1
Concluído!
Seeing the logs:
Makefile:194: *** Error: KERN_DIR does not point to a directory. Pare.
erick Reply to erick
December 3, 2016 at 8:25 am
fedora server 23
please help me,
# service vboxdrv setup
The service command supports only basic LSB actions (start, stop, restart, try-restart, reload, force-reload, status). For other actions, please try to use systemctl.
#/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
vboxdrv.sh: Building virtualbox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Building virtualbox kernel services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building virtualbox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why
(cann you help please ) how find the errors ..
scott Reply to scott
November 25, 2016 at 1:10 am
sweet instructions, worked great on CentOS 7
Siraj Jamdar Reply to Siraj
September 27, 2016 at 8:08 am
In step 4, I got the error reported by others:
# service vboxdrv setup
The service command supports only basic LSB actions (start, stop, restart, try-restart, reload, force-reload, status). For other actions, please try to use systemctl.
Solution found in this link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233583/service-vboxdrv-setup-throwing-error-when-installing-virtualbox-on-centos-7
# /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
# systemctl status vboxdrv
● vboxdrv.service – VirtualBox Linux kernel module
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2016-09-27 17:19:16 AEST; 37min ago
Process: 22375 ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Sep 27 17:19:15 hostname systemd[1]: Starting VirtualBox Linux kernel module…
Sep 27 17:19:16 hostname vboxdrv.sh[22375]: vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
Sep 27 17:19:16 hostname systemd[1]: Started VirtualBox Linux kernel module.
Moksud Reply to Moksud
September 20, 2016 at 3:35 pm
Hi,
epel repo has changed.
existing link is not working
Please use this instead:
wget
- Rahul K. Reply to Rahul
  September 22, 2016 at 7:42 am
  Thanks Moksud,
  I have updated urls.
Koen Reply to Koen
August 5, 2016 at 10:55 am
Why isn’t anyone mentioning that you should definitely add your user to the vboxusers group. Otherwise you cant use USB devices etc
Daniel Gomes Reply to Daniel
June 27, 2016 at 2:23 pm
Hi bro, please fix epel-release-7-7.noarch.rpm or people will get 404.
I love your post, btw!
Thanks!
- myadmin Reply to myadmin
  June 28, 2016 at 3:50 am
  Thanks Daniel,
  Tutorial has been updated.
Zimo Reply to Zimo
May 1, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Thank you very much.
I had an issue with Virtual Box on Fedora 23:
” 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’ ”
I did not follow exactly all you steps to fix it. I just installed the required packages (and setup the environment variable just to be sure). I installed after that the AMD64 version of Virtual Box available on the website and it is working now! 🙂
vishal singh Reply to vishal
April 10, 2016 at 7:35 am
i got error kernel driver not installed (rc=1908)
can you plz help me out.
Joe Reply to Joe
April 9, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Yes very helpful except the ‘#service vboxdrv setup’ failed to run on my CentOS 7… any help? but I think the Virtualbox installation should still work right?
Surekha Anantharaman Reply to Surekha
April 8, 2016 at 12:02 am
Thanks much. Was so helpful!
dar Reply to dar
February 14, 2016 at 5:22 pm
Very helpful, thank you.
Ari Reply to Ari
February 2, 2016 at 1:22 pm
Hello, I have the following error in the installation:
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS[ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [FALHOU]
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)
Scott Reply to Scott
January 3, 2016 at 10:26 am
Worked great in Cent OS 7! Thanks so much!
Arun D Reply to Arun
December 4, 2015 at 11:38 pm
You are my savior, was planning to wipe-out OEL before I stumbled on this site. I spent a day to find a resolution to fix Vbox installation issue, mainly due to following errors.
1) vboxdrv: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
2) virtualbox kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
3) For Vmware : C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution’s documentation for installation instructions.
I had bad a setting for KERN_DIR grrrrrrr
Solution:
So, correct KERN_DIR settings in .bashrc and install right “kernel-devel” and kernel-headers”
ROCCITYSCUBA Reply to ROCCITYSCUBA
December 4, 2015 at 8:24 am
Searched for awhile before I stumbled on this gem of a post – exactly what I needed to get VB up and running – Thanks!
The only thing I needed to do was to enable AMD-V Support in my BIOS to install a x64 version of windows, and after that, all is good!
Marty Reply to Marty
November 18, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Thanks for this!
simon Reply to simon
November 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm
Hi, your post was almost perfect ! Unfortunately at step 4, i get this :
[[email protected] VirtualBoxVMS]# service vboxdrv setup
The service command supports only basic LSB actions (start, stop, restart, try-restart, reload, force-reload, status). For other actions, please try to use systemctl.
And
[[email protected] VirtualBoxVMS]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
-bash: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Some hints ?
Joe Reply to Joe
October 15, 2015 at 8:20 pm
When I try to pull up Virtual box I get the below error
[[email protected] init.d]# virtualbox &
[1] 20252
[[email protected] init.d]# VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen(“/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so”,) failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
zamaan Reply to zamaan
September 12, 2015 at 2:46 pm
Thank you, really helped.
Tifanix Reply to Tifanix
August 13, 2015 at 8:19 pm
Thanks for this tutorial man!, its the only one I could find that actually works! 🙂
Tushar Reply to Tushar
July 30, 2015 at 10:29 pm
hi folks,
I was setting up virtual box and vagrant in an openstack instance .After working on Centos and RHEL 7 i found the same error and stuck in same point. Need your guide on further work out.
Do you think I need to fall back to old version of Centos/Rhel ( like 6 or 5) or I need to try to setup in version 7. The below error is the point i was stuck whiling configuring kernel for virtual box.
There is discrepancies in output of “uname –r” and # cat /usr/src/kernels/
[[email protected] kernels]$ ls -lrth
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4.0K Jul 30 21:28 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64.debug
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4.0K Jul 30 21:29 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64
[[email protected] kernels]$ uname -r
3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
[[email protected] kernels]$
Error is as follows.
[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/ccatg-ipv6.conf line 1: ignoring bad line starting with ‘option’
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Removing old VirtualBox pci kernel module [ OK ]
Removing old VirtualBox netadp kernel module [ OK ]
Removing old VirtualBox netflt kernel module [ OK ]
Removing old VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! echo
Your kernel headers for kernel 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64 cannot be found at
/lib/modules/3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64/build or /lib/modules/3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64/source.
[FAILED]
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(modprobe vboxpci failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)
[[email protected] ~]#
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
Tushar Reply to Tushar
July 29, 2015 at 10:08 pm
I follow the process and getting modprobe error
[[email protected] ~]# pwd
/root
[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! echo
Your kernel headers for kernel 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 cannot be found at
/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/build or /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/source.
[FAILED]
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(modprobe vboxpci failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)
Akiyama Reply to Akiyama
June 24, 2015 at 8:56 am
These instructions were very helpful and I followed this line by line, however I still fail to build:
# service vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modulesldconfig: Can’t create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
ldconfig exited ungracefully
ldconfig: Can’t create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
ldconfig exited ungracefully
Error! There are no instances of module: vboxhost
4.3.28 located in the DKMS tree.
[ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSldconfig: Can’t create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
ldconfig exited ungracefully
ldconfig: Can’t create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
ldconfig exited ungracefully
[ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)
Any ideas anyone?
David Bradbury Reply to David
January 8, 2015 at 10:15 am
Hi Rahul
Very helpful. The only other thing that I needed to do (and this took ages to find – this ticket https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12229 helped ) was to install a dependency needed but not automatically installed as we are using Oracle Unbreakable Linux (release 6.6)
Yum install kernel-uek-devel
the kernel source code environment variable on our server was then configured
export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.8.13-55.1.2.el6uek.x86_64
regards
jony Reply to jony
September 1, 2014 at 5:48 am
Downloading Packages:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/6/x86_64/VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_el6-1.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/6/x86_64/VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_el6-1.x86_64.rpm: (28, ‘Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds’)
Trying other mirror.
Error Downloading Packages:
VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_el6-1.x86_64: failure: VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_el6-1.x86_64.rpm from virtualbox: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Andrew Reply to Andrew
August 24, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Hello.
Can you please tell how to setup virtual machine (with one HDD for example) and tell it to start automatically with system startup from command line (I don’t have a X windows)
tony Reply to tony
August 22, 2014 at 5:50 pm
thanks for this really great tutorial which has helped me set up multiple vm’s inside centos
Dilip rathod Reply to Dilip
August 9, 2014 at 9:09 am
[[email protected] student]# ls /usr/src/kernels3.14.15-100.fc19.i686
Dilip rathod Reply to Dilip
August 9, 2014 at 9:07 am
Please help to setup oracle Virtual Box 4.3
I have installed of fedora 19 using yum Virtual-Box-4.3 using instruction given at if-not-true-then-false.com
when i try to set up vm i get following error
[[email protected] student]# service vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
[[email protected] student]# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:183: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop.
[[email protected] student]#
Kaushik Reply to Kaushik
July 8, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Yep I did that already. and my whole CentOS 6.5 is uptodate
David Bradbury Reply to David
July 1, 2014 at 11:23 am
Exactly what I needed after assuming that just the virtualbox rpm file would install everything authomatically!
Search term “oracle virtualbox installation steps centos”
Only had to add –skip-broken to the end of the line “yum install kernel-headers …… ” as autotrace, fontforge and xdg-utils complained about dependancy problems.
Virtual box runs well and imported the virtual server from one of our other hosts, no problems.
Many thanks
David
- Kaushik Reply to Kaushik
  July 7, 2014 at 9:27 pm
  Hi,
  I tried to install the VirtualBox and I get this
  [[email protected] ~]# service vboxdrv setup
  Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
  Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
  Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! echo
  Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.32-042stab090.4 cannot be found at
  /lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab090.4/build or /lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab090.4/source.
  [FAILED]
  (Failed, trying without DKMS)
  Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
  In var/log/vbox-install.log
  Uninstalling modules from DKMS
  removing old DKMS module vboxhost version 4.3.12
  ——————————
  Deleting module version: 4.3.12
  completely from the DKMS tree.
  ——————————
  Done.
  Attempting to install using DKMS
  Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.3.12/source ->
  /usr/src/vboxhost-4.3.12
  DKMS: add completed.
  Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
  Makefile:183: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop.
  Output of rpm -qa | grep kernel
  [[email protected] ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
  dracut-kernel-004-336.el6_5.2.noarch
  kernel-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64
  kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.noarch
  kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64
  kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64
  Please help me with this how I can fix the error.
  - Rahul Reply to Rahul
    July 8, 2014 at 4:00 am
    Hello Kaushik
    I fixed same issue sometimes by updating kernel of our system. You may also try to update kernel of your system..
    # yum update kernel
    But be careful with it…
    - Kaushik Reply to Kaushik
      July 10, 2014 at 1:54 pm
      Any help with this ??
Umesh Reply to Umesh
April 18, 2014 at 5:53 am
# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup always failed for me.
However this worked
# service vboxdrv setup
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  April 18, 2014 at 7:29 am
  Thanks Umesh
Andrew Reply to Andrew
April 18, 2014 at 2:59 am
Thanks for the tutorial! When I launch Virtualbox, it flashes on the screen and then disappears. Any ideas?
Deemango Reply to Deemango
March 26, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Hie Rahul
I am getting this error, any idea of a fix
=============================================
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/6/i386/VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.10_92957_el6-1.i686.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 404 Not found”
Trying other mirror.
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  March 27, 2014 at 3:30 am
  Hi Deemango,
  It looks you added repository few days back. Virtualbox has updated its packages revision. Try to clean yum cache and install it again.
  # yum clean all
  # yum install VirtualBox-4.3
DrupalFever Reply to DrupalFever
March 13, 2014 at 7:42 pm
On step 4 you could replace the line:
# export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
With the line:
# export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`ls /usr/src/kernels`
This would prevent the error experienced by “bijay”.
Dishanka Reply to Dishanka
February 1, 2014 at 10:22 am
This work fine for CentOS 6.5. thanks
Dishanka Reply to Dishanka
February 1, 2014 at 10:20 am
This work fine. thanks.
bijay Reply to bijay
July 30, 2013 at 5:09 am
After running the following command I am getting error, Anyhelp will be highly apreciated.
# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! echo
Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64/build or /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64/source.
[FAILED]
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  July 30, 2013 at 5:16 am
  Hi Bijay,
  Can you please paste the content of /var/log/vbox-install.log file.
  Also make sure you have installed kernel-headers, kernel-devel packages and configured KERN_DIR variable.
  - bijay Reply to bijay
    July 30, 2013 at 2:54 pm
    I have installed all the required packages and configured KERN_DIR variable also.
    Uninstalling modules from DKMS
    removing old DKMS module vboxhost version 4.2.16
    ——————————
    Deleting module version: 4.2.16
    completely from the DKMS tree.
    ——————————
    Done.
    Attempting to install using DKMS
    Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.16/source ->
    /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.16
    DKMS: add completed.
    Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
    Makefile:190: *** Error: KERN_DIR does not point to a directory. Stop.
    ~
    And when I removed the ‘uname -r’ from the KERN_DIR variable and included another variable
    export KERN_INCL=/usr/src/kernels/
    I get the following errors in log file
    Uninstalling modules from DKMS
    removing old DKMS module vboxhost version 4.2.16
    ——————————
    Deleting module version: 4.2.16
    completely from the DKMS tree.
    ——————————
    Done.
    Attempting to install using DKMS
    Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.16/source ->
    /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.16
    DKMS: add completed.
    Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
    make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /usr/src/kernels/ modules
    make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules’. Stop.
    make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2
    ~
    ~
    ~
    - Rahul Reply to Rahul
      July 30, 2013 at 3:11 pm
      Hi bijay,
      Please send me output of following command
      # rpm -qa | grep kernel
      Also have a look at this forum thread. It may fix your issue
      https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1505
    - DrupalFever Reply to DrupalFever
      March 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm
      I made a mistake on my previous reply.
      Here is the correnct set of steps:
      My solution to this problem was to do the following:
      1) Go to the followning folder to find out the environment name:
      [[email protected] ~]$ ls /usr/src/kernels
      2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
      2) Open the root “.bashrc” file for editing with Nano.
      [[email protected] ~]$ nano .bashrc
      3) The output from the command for the 1st step was used to insert a line in the “.bashrc” file. Inside of the file I added the following line:
      export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
      4) After saving the file I executed the “.bashrc” lines.
      [[email protected] ~]$ source .bashrc
      5) Finally I ran the VirtualBox rebuilding script:
      [[email protected] ~]$ /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
- pEpe Reply to pEpe
  April 21, 2016 at 6:25 am
  Try this:
  yum install kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64 (use your current version, $KERN_DIR)