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Posted by Charles Lambropoulos
Charles Lambropoulos
Courses Plus Student 2,862 Points

Vagrant has detected that you have a version of VirtualBox installed that is not supported.

When running the "vagrant up" command in Terminal, I get the following error message. I have also tried re-installing the Virtual Box extension pack and running again with no luck.

"The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown below:

Vagrant has detected that you have a version of VirtualBox installed that is not supported. Please install one of the supported versions listed below to use Vagrant:

4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3"

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

What version of virtualbox are you on?

Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
15,754 Points

i am having the same problem with virtual box . i saw difference version from the video instead 4.3.2 i get 5.0 and i don't know if i should download it

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

According to the VirtualBox section of the Vagrant Documentation, Vagrant is supposed to work with VirtualBox 5.0.

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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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I ran into this error message too. Turns out that the version of Vagrant installed was not the latest and, thus, not compatible with VirtualBox 5.0.x.

Here's what I had:

vagrant --version

Vagrant 1.6.3

VirtualBox version 5.0.10r104061

By downloading the latest version from Vagrant, I was able to run 'vagrant up' without issues.

NOTE: I did run the uninstaller provided in the Vagrant download package prior to running the installer of the latest version.