Extension Pack installation fails for 4.2.1
Posted: 4. Oct 2012, 05:35
I just downloaded and installed the latest release of VirtualBox for MacOS, 4.2.1. But when I attempted to install the extension pack from 4.2, it fails with the following error message. It looks like 4.2.1 may have been packaged with a back level release of a support library.
- Failed to install the Extension Pack /Users/X/Downloads/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack.
Failed to load the main module ('/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/darwin.amd64/VBoxPuelMain.dylib'): VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND - dlopen(/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/darwin.amd64/VBoxPuelMain.dylib, 6): Library not loaded: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxVMM.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/darwin.amd64/VBoxPuelMain.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: VBoxPuelMain.dylib requires version 4.2.0 or later, but VBoxVMM.dylib provides version 4.1.23.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ExtPackManager
Interface: IExtPackManager {3295e6ce-b051-47b2-9514-2c588bfe7554}