I never can start any virtual machine in virtualbox! : Error “Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)”

I installed VirtualBox using sudo apt-get install virtualbox.

Every time I try to start a virtual machine, I get this error:

I logged in as root, and typed this into the terminal: modprobe vboxdrv and I got another error:

I also got another error:

(More info: I am using Ubuntu 16.04)

Help!!!

1 Answer

Reinstall the virtualbox-dkms package by running the following commands

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms