diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a707353a9..554e67751 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.8.0 (unreleased)
+
+
+
 ## 0.7.6 (July 2, 2011)
 
   - Run Chef commands in a single command. [GH-390]
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 9d4710f7b..d5d55ca58 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ gem "vagrant", :path => '.'
 
 # Use the following gems straight from git, since Vagrant dev
 # typically coincides with it
-gem "virtualbox", :git => "git://github.com/mitchellh/virtualbox.git", :ref => "038729cd89a15111106404726b75a1d463edc892"
+gem "virtualbox", :git => "git://github.com/mitchellh/virtualbox.git"
 
 # Gems required for testing only. To install run
 # gem bundle test
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/version.rb b/lib/vagrant/version.rb
index 1a02b9b05..f9975e6ed 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/version.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/version.rb
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ module Vagrant
   # This will always be up to date with the current version of Vagrant,
   # since it is used to generate the gemspec and is also the source of
   # the version for `vagrant -v`
-  VERSION = "0.7.6"
+  VERSION = "0.8.0.dev"
 end
diff --git a/vagrant.gemspec b/vagrant.gemspec
index a8a540fa2..d63e89c64 100644
--- a/vagrant.gemspec
+++ b/vagrant.gemspec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency "net-scp", "~> 1.0.4"
   s.add_dependency "i18n", "~> 0.5.0"
   s.add_dependency "thor", "~> 0.14.6"
-  s.add_dependency "virtualbox", "~> 0.8.3"
+  s.add_dependency "virtualbox", "~> 0.9.0.dev"
 
   s.add_development_dependency "rake"
   s.add_development_dependency "contest", ">= 0.1.2"