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I am trying to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 on a Debian Stretch host but I ran into a "Support driver version mismatch" error when starting a guest machine. The previous version (5.0) was totally purged before installing 5.1.

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00:09:19.787077 Watcher  ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={b2547866-a0a1-4391-8b86-6952d82efaa0} aComponent={MachineWrap} aText={The virtual machine 'Win10' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
00:09:19.792575 nspr-3   Support driver version mismatch: DriverVersion=0x240000 ClientVersion=0x2a0000 rc=VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH

Installed VB version from the Debian repo's (I have also tried the 5.1 from virtualbox dot org - same error)

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ii  virtualbox-5.1      5.1.26-117224~Debian~str amd64          Oracle VM VirtualBox

lsmod | grep vbox

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vboxpci                24576  0
vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxnetflt             28672  0
vboxdrv               450560  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci

# modinfo vboxdrv

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filename:       /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/vboxdrv.ko
version:        5.0.40 r115130 (0x00240000)
license:        GPL
description:    Oracle VM VirtualBox Support Driver
author:         Oracle Corporation
srcversion:     3AFDBBC6FDA2CE8CF253D33
depends:        
vermagic:       4.9.0-3-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           force_async_tsc:force the asynchronous TSC mode (int)

systemctl status vbox*

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* vboxdrv.service - VirtualBox Linux kernel module
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2017-08-03 10:47:17 CEST; 19min ago
  Process: 9791 ExecStop=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 10048 ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/vboxdrv.service

Aug 03 10:47:17 albin systemd[1]: Starting VirtualBox Linux kernel module...
Aug 03 10:47:17 albin vboxdrv.sh[10048]: vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
Aug 03 10:47:17 albin systemd[1]: Started VirtualBox Linux kernel module.

* vboxautostart-service.service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2017-08-03 10:27:08 CEST; 39min ago
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/vboxautostart-service.service

Aug 03 10:27:08 albin systemd[1]: Starting vboxautostart-service.service...
Aug 03 10:27:08 albin systemd[1]: Started vboxautostart-service.service.

* vboxballoonctrl-service.service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxballoonctrl-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2017-08-03 10:27:08 CEST; 39min ago
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/vboxballoonctrl-service.service

Aug 03 10:27:08 albin systemd[1]: Starting vboxballoonctrl-service.service...
Aug 03 10:27:08 albin systemd[1]: Started vboxballoonctrl-service.service.

* vboxweb-service.service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

ripat wrote:The previous version (5.0) was totally purged before installing 5.1.

I'm not so sure about that...

According to the error:

ripat wrote:

00:09:19.792575 nspr-3   Support driver version mismatch: DriverVersion=0x240000 ClientVersion=0x2a0000 rc=VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH

And then you have your VirtualBox version:

ripat wrote:

ii  virtualbox-5.1      5.1.26-117224~Debian~str amd64          Oracle VM VirtualBox

and your driver version:

ripat wrote:

filename:       /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/vboxdrv.ko
version:        5.0.40 r115130 (0x00240000)

Try to clean the system again. And please use only the official VirtualBox installation, if you'd like support in these forums.

You are right. The vboxdrv module loaded in the kernel by dkms is an old version (5.0.40 r115130). I just copied the new one supplied from the deb package (5.1.26 r117224) to the /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/ directory the and everything was up and running again.

Thanks.

BTW how can I re-register a module in dkms in order to point to an updated version of it?

Great, thanks for the feedback. I marked the thread as [Solved].

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