Updated to latest version of VirtualBox and now my machines won't work

[VBhelpme]

I am currently running VirtualBox version 5.1.30 on a thinkpad laptop with Ubuntu version 17.10. I have tried to update to the latest VirtualBox however my machines fail to work properly on the latest version. I am using VB to run Whonix. I am hoping somebody can help me out. I would post photos of the errors but since my account is new apparently I am not allowed. I will do my best to type out the errors below. Thanks!

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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Whonix-Gateway
The virtual machine 'Whonix-Gateway' has terminated unexpectedely during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine [85cd948e-a71f-4298-281e-0ca7ad48cd89

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VirtualBox - Error in supR3HardenedMaininitRuntime
RTR3initEx failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912)
The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox. The installation of VirtualBox was apparently not successful. Executing '/sbin/vboxconfig' may correct this. Make sure that you do not mix the OSE version and the PUEL version of VirtualBox.

where: supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime what: 4 VERR_VM_DRIVER_VERSION_MISMATCH (-1912) - The installed support driver doesn't match the version of the user.

I have tried that '/sbin/vboxconfig' command and it did not fix the issue. I uninstalled virtualbox and also ran the "autoremove" command along with the "update" and "upgrade" commands and tried re-installing, still got the error. Hope you guys can make some sense of this. I downloaded the program straight from the VB website as well.

[socratis]

You need to uninstall/purge the old VirtualBox version and install the new one. Use your favorite uninstall method for that, be it dpkg, apt-get, Synaptic, etc. I tend to like Synaptic, I'm more of a GUI person...

If that doesn't work you should try the latest test builds (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds), especially with all the Spectre/Meltdown patches coming in from all sides.

[towo2099]

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apt purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/virtualbox/{ print $2}')

then reinstall vbox clean.