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I have installed the kernel 5.0.5-050005-generic because I had boot issues.

Now when I run vagrant up I get this message:

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.

What I then did:

adam@adam-MS-7A63:~/Programme/homestead$ VBoxManage --version
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (5.0.5-050005-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.
6.0.2r128162

Next I tried to recompile as suggested:

adam@adam-MS-7A63:~/Programme/homestead$ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
[sudo] password for adam: 
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.

I put the content from log file here at Ubuntu Pastebin because if I paste it into a codeblock here I excess the allowed body limit.

I also followed the suggestions from https://askubuntu.com/a/779427/247771 to disable secure boot, but it didn't change anything.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

Adam
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This is normal behavior for any new kernel release and existing kernel objects / modules will not work until they are updated and made compatible with the kernel you are running.

marko
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YOu need to install Virtualbox Version 6.0.4 , if you are installing VirtualBox using Ubuntu repository than it will not work properly with kernel 5.0.5

use Oracle Virtual-box repository and install Virtualbox 6.0.4

Nisankh Acharjya
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