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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?

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 .

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.