diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 712b70365..2bf880be8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
   - Fix issue causing custom guest implementations to not load properly.
   - Filter clear screen character out of output on SSH.
   - Log output now goes on `stderr`, since it is utility information.
+  - Get rid of case where a `NoMethodError` could be raised while
+    determining VirtualBox version. [GH-658]
 
 ## 0.9.1 (January 18, 2012)
 
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/driver/virtualbox.rb b/lib/vagrant/driver/virtualbox.rb
index 5657643c2..10ce51cc0 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/driver/virtualbox.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/driver/virtualbox.rb
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ module Vagrant
         # Read and assign the version of VirtualBox we know which
         # specific driver to instantiate.
         begin
-          @version = read_version
+          @version = read_version || ""
         rescue Subprocess::LaunchError
           # This means that VirtualBox was not found, so we raise this
           # error here.
@@ -113,8 +113,13 @@ module Vagrant
         # * 4.1.8r1234_OSE
         # * 4.1.8_MacPortsr1234
         #
-        # Below accounts for all of these:
-        execute("--version").split("_")[0].split("r")[0]
+        # Below accounts for all of these.
+
+        # Note: We split this into multiple lines because apparently "".split("_")
+        # is [], so we have to check for an empty array in between.
+        parts = execute("--version").split("_")
+        return nil if parts.empty?
+        parts[0].split("r")[0]
       end
     end
   end