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Hello, all! This is my first post here, and I'd like to note that I've searched this problem for a few hours, coming across mostly "Vagrant" related posts/solutions. Nothing has quite been what I need. With that said, I apologize if this same issue has been solved here. I did attempt to search different keywords from my error, but I didn't run into anything that was what I needed.

I'm attempting to install a virtual machine via SSH on a server using VBoxManage. The server is running Ubuntu 18.10. The goal is to set this up completely via SSH, so that in the future, I can do this on a server without any sort of GUI. So, let's just pretend I don't have physical access to this server to use the qt virtual box package.

VDI Image being used from: osboxes centos-7-1804-vbox (no link allowed on first post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
$ id reflects that the current user IS in vboxusers


Here's what I've done so far:
I'm really not sure where I should be searching next. I'm thinking that there are probably some necessary settings that I'm missing. Would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

Joshua Schlichting wrote:I'm thinking that there are probably some necessary settings that I'm missing

First of all, CentOS is not "Linux_64", that's the generic Linux template. CentOS is "RedHat_64". And since you're missing a lot of defaults changes, a lot of defaults are going to be wrong.

But, 99.9% you're right. Here's a technique that you can try while you have the GUI as well. Create a "CentOS-GUI" VM from... the GUI, with the settings that you want and then compare the output of "VBoxManage showvminfo <VMname>" for the two VMs.

Another thing is to try starting the VM from the GUI, before going "VBoxHeadless". See what's the error that you get there. Do *NOT* touch the settings before starting it.

Alright, I ended up walking over to the server and trying to run the VDI from the GUI. I got the exact error posted here:
askubuntu dot com /questions/837427/virtualbox-kernel-modules-do-not-match-this-version-of-virtualbox ( I'm still too new to this forum to post legitimate hyperlinks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

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.

and the accepted answer worked for me!!!

So it was a broken VirtualBox installation after all? Is it working now? Can we close this?

It appears so. I think it's safe to close this. Thanks for your time!

Hello,
I have exactly the same issue (NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine) with VirtualBox 6.0.6r130049 after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04. The .deb file is installed from the website directly. What I've tried:
- I tried to run the command: it restart the service and rebuild the kernel modules but no success
- I tried to uninstall it and install virtualbox and virtualbox-dkms from the repository but no success also.

What can I do ?

soyouzz wrote: What can I do ?

You can try the following :
Completely delete the Virtualbox, then
modinfo vboxdrv
Manually delete any redundant (unwanted) module/s.
Then do fresh install of latest VirtualBox, followed by rebuild of kernel modules
/usr/sbin/vboxconfig
Worked for me.
HTH