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!!

Answer 2

I've found a working solution. Add the following code to your Vagrantfile somewhere in the Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| section.

if Vagrant.has_plugin? "vagrant-vbguest"
  config.vbguest.no_install  = true
  config.vbguest.auto_update = false
  config.vbguest.no_remote   = true
end

Answer 3

I had same issue on Ubuntu 18.04 with Virtualbox 5.2.18

Fix: add the following lines to your vagrant file.

if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-vbguest")
    config.vbguest.auto_update = false  
end

See this comment at github

Answer 4

Possibly too late for OP but in case it helps anyone else, comments in the vagrant-vbguest plugin project on GitHub suggest the additions are installed correctly but reported incorrectly. Updating to the latest version fixed it for me:

vagrant plugin update
Updating installed plugins...
Updated 'vagrant-vbguest' to version '0.14.2'!