Failed to start VM on Debian "lenny"!

kemiisto · Post by **kemiisto** » 20. Sep 2008, 02:03

HI, everyone!

It's the first time, when I have problems with VirtualBox. My host OS is Debian "lenny" and I've installed VirtualBox 2.0.2 through its official repo. When I try to start virtual machine it failed with such message:

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:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

What does it mean? How can I solve this problem?

Post by **Sasquatch** » 20. Sep 2008, 20:01

If you updated from the official VB repo (so you run the PUEL version), you need to remove any residual config first. See the VirtualBox FAQ about the upgrade from a 1.x version to 2.x. VMs will be kept of course

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kemiisto · Post by **kemiisto** » 20. Sep 2008, 23:32

Sasquatch, thanks for reply!

The reason of such strange behavior was that I installed i386 Debian version and then changed kernel to amd64 (I have MacBook, so it's best way as mentioned here http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook). But some packages (including VB) installs for i386 architecture anyway. It causes variety of problems.

Today I reinstalled Linux. I have success to install "pure" Debian amd64! And, of course, I have working version of VB! That's great!

P.S. I'm sorry for my poor english.