vagrant up: Got different reports about installed GuestAdditions version

Question

When doing a vagrant up I get:

Got different reports about installed GuestAdditions version:
Virtualbox on your host claims:   5.0.28
VBoxService in         


        

Answer 1

IN CASE you are using vagrant, from ubuntu's apt repository, uninstall it and step away from the scenario immediately!

sudo apt-get purge vagrant

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoremove

Now download vagrant's .deb by Hashicop from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html install and the error would be gone IN CASE you installed vagrant from apt

clean and autoremove is important to prevent the installer from using cached files from apt even when you use the .deb!!