The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded

Question

I am using Vagrant. When I try to start it, I get this issue (it was working the past year, no idea why it suddenly fails - I haven't updated anything):

The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'homestead' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown below:

VirtualBox is complaining that the kernel module is not loaded. Please run VBoxManage --version or open the VirtualBox GUI to see the error message which should contain instructions on how to fix this error.

Running VBoxManage --version returns this:

WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (5.3.0-26-generic) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

       sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

     You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

6.0.10r132072

Running sudo /sbin/vboxconfig returns this:

vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.log to find out what went wrong.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

The log file is very large. I pasted it here.

Any recommendations what I need to do to fix this?

Answer 1

Solved it by upgrading vagrant from 2.2.5 to 2.2.6 and virtualbox to 6.0.16

Answer 2

I faced a similar issue with VirtualBox 7.0 which I have been using for many months now on my Ubuntu 22.04.

To solve it, I downloaded the package again from VirtualBox website, and installed it:

# navigate to where the package has been downloaded
cd Downloads

# install the package
sudo apt install ./virtualbox-7.0_7.0.14-161095\~Ubuntu\~jammy_amd64.deb