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

hello friends I had the same error from Daniel-I everything is due to compactness between versions the virtualbox-ext-oracle is not compact with the version of virtual box that you download from the official repositories ... to be clearer we must validate our version of virtualbox with the following command

VBoxManage -v

in my case I have version 6.1.26r145957 of virtualbox

on the next virtualbox page you will find the old builds

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_6_1

here each release has its respective extension pack

In my case, as I mentioned above, I have version 6.1.26 for which I downloaded the following extension pack

https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.26/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.26.vbox-extpack

once we download it, we only install it with the following command in the location where it is located

sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.26.vbox-extpack

With update to Virtualbox 6.1.28. I rebuilt and installed this package and all is well.

installed with virtualbox-bin 6.1.26-1, but still VirtualBox shows no extension pack installed :(

In hindsight, could the issue be related to version matching?

VirtualBox and all it's other packages are v6.1.26 while this package has been updated to 6.1.28... so perhaps this package update was made ahead of VirtualBox (in my Manjaro/pamac repositories anyway) being updated, and will be relevant once VirtualBox itself is updated to 6.1.28?

I wasn't sure how to downgrade an AUR package initially, but found a post that helped me to navigate the snapshots, download the three 6.1.26 package files, and run makepkg -scri... which successfully restored a working extension within Virtualbox!

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...
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
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.