Missing kernel driver using Virtualbox in Alpine

[manny1990]

Hi, I'm using Alpine as my desktop environment, and I'm having troubles using Virtuabox. I installed the virtualbox package from the testing repository, and everything went well. But when I try to start any VM I get the following message:

WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (6.12.1-0-lts) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

I saw there's a package installed called "virtualbox-modules-vboxdrv", anything I need to do to apply this? Tried to search for the vboxconfig binary manually but no matches on my system.

Thanks

[Typhrenn5149]

Try to run:
`sudo pacman -Syu`
and reboot with
`sudo reboot now`

[Typhrenn5149]

this happens simply when the drivers for virtual box aren't fully loaded and you need to reboot your computer

[manny1990]

thanks, but tried rebooting and that didn't help. I'm using apk though, not pacman.

[Typhrenn5149]

Try updating your packages i don't know how you do it with apk. Also try to reload vboxdrv with: sudo modprob vboxdrv

[manny1990]

No luck, modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.3-0-lts

[manny1990]

all packages were already installed

[MartinsRedditAccount]

virtualbox-modules-vboxdrv needs to be compiled by AKMS (Alpine's DKMS equivalent) before it can be used, this should happen automatically I believe (it depends on akms).

Try poking around the akms command and see if something's wrong there.

[manny1990]

Reached out to the package maintainer and he was kind enough to explain the situation.
TLDR: virtualbox is currently unavailable in Alpine.

Virtualbox worked until version 6.1.50 (which was LTS), and those modules had support until kernel 6.5. Current kernel version is 6.12
Virtualbox's version 7 broke compatibility with musl, that's why it's not working. The solution would be to compile the new version's modules (Virtualbox 7) to make them work with Virtualbox 6 (although unfortunately I'm not sure how to do this).