Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:17:29 +0000
Jack Knight <jack.knight@???> wrote:

> 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 ?

yup, several weeks ago and have logged in afresh several times
since.

I am wondering if a recent kernel update may have messed things up.
I am going to purge virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source and then
re-install them

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John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package