Virtualbox - Error

ironwiller · 2008-06-11 04:05:31

Failed to start the virtual machine WindowsXP

The VirtualBox support driver which is running is from a different version of VirtualBox. You can correct this by stopping all running instances of VirtualBox and reinstalling the software..
VBox status code: -1912 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_VERSION_MISMATCH).


Result Code: 
0x80004005
Component: 
Console
Interface: 
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

i try to do what it says. offcourse with backing up all the Virtualbox folder before. i did pacman -R virtualbox-ose virtualbox-modules virtualbox-additions

and then i went to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and install the previous installation first 1.5.6-1 and then did the same with the newest one. nothing.
what must i do to get this thing work?
thank you in advanced

shazeal · 2008-06-11 04:46:56

Might want to try grabbing the virtualbox-modules ABS package build and just rebuilding the package yourself that way it will build against your current kernel.

ironwiller · 2008-06-11 04:55:10

shazeal wrote:

Might want to try grabbing the virtualbox-modules ABS package build and just rebuilding the package yourself that way it will build against your current kernel.

how do you suggest to do that?

shazeal · 2008-06-11 05:42:12

Read this... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

then copy the virtualbox-modules dir to somewhere you have write permissions, run makepkg on it and pacman -U the resulting package.

ironwiller · 2008-06-11 06:10:26

lol....this is funny sometimes... yes ok it was my fault... but i thought that it didnt need to... i just restart the pc and now (after adding again the user to virtualboxusers) it works gr8. ty for the fast support. Q: y did this had to happened?

Zer0 · 2008-06-11 19:00:43

I think the issue was that the vboxdrv module that was loaded in ram was from the previous version. Then when you upgraded Virtualbox and tried to run it.. there was a version mismatch because the old kernel module was still loaded. A reboot would have solved this issue, as it did.

to avoid the restart you could have also done
rmmod vboxdrv
modprobe vboxdrv

ironwiller · 2008-06-16 08:26:34

Zer0 wrote:

I think the issue was that the vboxdrv module that was loaded in ram was from the previous version. Then when you upgraded Virtualbox and tried to run it.. there was a version mismatch because the old kernel module was still loaded. A reboot would have solved this issue, as it did.
to avoid the restart you could have also done
rmmod vboxdrv
modprobe vboxdrv

ok ty for your time and the info.

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#1 2008-06-11 04:05:31

Virtualbox - Error

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