2008/10/22, Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings; > > I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but > both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox > I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff. > > The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version > of VirtualBox application are not matching. You can correct > this by either installing the correct virtualbox-ose-modules > package (if available) through apt-get or by building it > manually with: module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose. > VBox status code: -1912 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_VERSION_MISMATCH). > > > Result Code: > 0x80004005 > Component: > Console > Interface: > IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf} > > I also tried the auto-install, which worked, but that doesn't solve the > problem > either. > > Any ideas what is wrong or how to get out of this?
Let me guess. You have installed the "virtualbox-ose" package along with another that begins with the name "virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6"? The latter contains the precompiled version of the Virtualbox kernel module, which at the moment appears to be out of sync with the "virtualbox-ose" package. There is, however, an uncompiled "source" package for the Virtualbox kernel module called "virtualbox-ose-source". This should be the same version as the one for "virtualbox-ose". You need to build the kernel module yourself. Broadly, the commands you need to use are: (1) apt-get install virtualbox-ose-source (or its aptitude/synaptic equivalent) (2) module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose The two commands need to be done as root (since that is the only way you can install programs and build and install a kernel module). In my case, I used sudo, although you can probably get away with using fakeroot for step (2). Step (2) will produce your very own custom "virtualbox-ose-modules-*.deb" package in /usr/src. HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]