Tuesday, September 14, 2021

VirtualBox does not survive macOS updates

Lately, macOS updates break VirtualBox with "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)" error. Not only is this highly annoying and oh-so-expected, but a reasonable solution (that does not involve reboots into Recovery mode, endless uninstalls and reinstalls, etc.) to this error is not terribly easy to find. After some poking around, I came across this and it worked:

1) restart the Mac

2) % sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart

VirtualBox runs fine again. Whew!


P.S. Why am I still bothering with VirtualBox???