Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

john lewis wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:35:45 +0000
> Adam Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
>
>
>> Yesterday rather than attend the LUG meeting as I had intended, I
>> stayed at home nursing my cold. When I wasn't feeling too bad I had
>> a go at installing VirtualBox for Linux on my Debian Lenny system.
>>
>
> some time ago I installed VirtualBox on my spare sytem and created an
> XP vdi.
>
> I then decided I'd like to run that on my main system so installed
> VirtualBox again on this sytem and having saved the XPPro.vdi to an
> external harddrive I copied it into ~/me/.VirtualBox/VDI.
>
> I can start up VirtualBox and it tells me that XPPro is powered
> off. If I then try to run it I get the following error:
>
> Failed to start the virtual machine XPPro
>
> 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: -11 (VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH).
>
> Does this mean that I will need to re-install XPPro?
>

Did you add your user account to the vboxusers group ?

jfk