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There is no version dependency on this package on purpose! You could read comments back from 2011 to understand why.

Same as Daniel-I. I was able to get my VM running by disabling USB 3.0

Same issue as reported by Daniel-l. Prevents my VM from starting up. Downgrading to the previous version helps as a workaround (just needed a quick Office job).

I received an update notification from pamac (GUI) that this package was updated today and selected to update.... I received a number of errors (all in the "Configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle..." section) and thought it best to provide the entire pamac log here to assist with troubleshooting.

Preparing...
Checking virtualbox-ext-oracle dependencies...
Synchronizing package databases...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
Checking keyring...
Checking integrity...
Loading packages files...
Checking file conflicts...
Checking available disk space...
Installing m4 (1.4.19-1)...
Installing autoconf (2.71-1)...
Installing flex (2.6.4-3)...
Installing bison (3.8.1-1)...
Installing fakeroot (1.26-1)...
Installing pkgconf (1.8.0-1)...
Installing automake (1.16.5-1)...
Running post-transaction hooks...
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
Updating the info directory file...
Cloning virtualbox-ext-oracle build files...
Generating virtualbox-ext-oracle information...

Building virtualbox-ext-oracle...
==> Making package: virtualbox-ext-oracle 6.1.28-1 (Wed 20 Oct 2021 04:59:45 PM)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.28.vbox-extpack...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 10.6M  100 10.6M    0     0  20.6M      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 20.7M
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.28.vbox-extpack ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> Creating package "virtualbox-ext-oracle"...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
  -> Adding install file...
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: virtualbox-ext-oracle 6.1.28-1 (Wed 20 Oct 2021 04:59:46 PM)
==> Cleaning up...

Checking keyring...
Checking integrity...
Loading packages files...
Checking file conflicts...
Checking available disk space...
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Configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle...
0%...
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
Error while configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle
VBoxManage: error: Failed to install "/usr/share/virtualbox/extensions/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.28.vbox-extpack"
Error while configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle
VBoxManage: error: VBoxExtPackRegister returned VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH, pReg=0000000000000000 ErrInfo='Helper version mismatch - expected 0x30000 got 0x3'
Error while configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackManagerWrap, interface IExtPackManager
Error while configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleExtPack(HandlerArg*)" at line 1424 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
Error while configuring virtualbox-ext-oracle
Error: virtualbox-ext-oracle: command failed to execute correctly
Transaction successfully finished.

I'm not sure what was supposed to happen with the first error (where it "failed to install"), but I can say it likely wasn't because the file did not exist, as it definitely does exist. (Note: the timestamp of the vbox-extpack is 7 min older as I thought I'd try remove/rebuild the package to see if that made a difference... which it didn't.)

$ ls -la /usr/share/virtualbox/extensions
total 1696
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Oct 20 17:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 Oct 20 17:06 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1728407 Oct 20 17:06 Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.28.vbox-extpack

When I open VirtualBox and open Preferences-> Extensions I see extension highlighted and if I mouse over it, it seems to repeat error #2 from the log.

This reminded me that the previous version of this package did not auto-register and I had to add it manually. So I tried the following steps and reached the same end result: (1) uninstalled the extension via pamac... (2) opened VirtualBox, removed the extension entry in Preferences->Extensions, and closed the app... (3) reinstalled the extension via pamac... same errors... (4) opened VirtualBox and found the extension was re-added with the same error on mouse-over (error #2 from the pamac log)

@ElijahLynn, unless I'm missing something, it should "just work". You can learn more about the extension pack at https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing

I hope it helps!

Thanks.

Are there any specific instructions here after install? I don't see the Extension showing up in vbox preferences under extensions. Should it "just work"?

Update: it appears that I needed to reboot for it to show up.

Thinking more about it, the guest-additions module fail to build problem isn't with this package, the problem is with the guest-additions not patched as part of AUR virtualbox-bin.

Your post install script fails.

Test build 139990 was deleted from server and since than package can't be built. Using Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.13-140091.vbox-extpack it builds and works fine.

UPD: Before the kernel panic on a frozen VM wakeup.

Seems like there is a new version or they simply removed it because the download link is broken.