[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#456391: virtualbox-ose-source: AMD64 kernel on i386 userspace problem

[Mark Pavlichuk]

Package: virtualbox-ose-source
Version: 1.5.2-dfsg2
Severity: normal


  I'm using an AMD64 kernel on a i386 userspace (because I need to use
software only available as i386 binaries).  The AMD64 kernel module compiles,
installs and modprobes, but when I run VirtualBox I get the following error
dialog :

"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."

  If I instead use a i686 kernel on the same box it works fine.  I've tried a
K7 kernel (on another box) with success also.  The problem seems to only
happen on an AMD64 kernel on a Debian Etch i386 install (though I haven't
tried an AMD64 kernel on Etch AMD64).

  Oops...  just realised : I'm writing this error report from a virtual
machine so the system information on this bug report will be wrong.  Please
email if this is important information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)