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I install oracle vm virtual box v 5.1.20. When i tried to start this i had an error 

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
/sbin/vboxconfig as root.
where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

I looking for same problems and found it VirtualBox "Kernel driver not installed" error despite running /sbin/vboxconfig but when I run command sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup or sudo /sbin/vboxconfig setup I had this:

vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.

After runnig dpkg -l *virtualbox*i got

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un  virtualbox     <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-5.1 5.1.20-11462 amd64        Oracle VM VirtualBox
ii  virtualbox-dkm 5.0.36-dfsg- all          x86 virtualization solution - ker
un  virtualbox-gue <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-gue 5.0.36-dfsg- all          x86 virtualization solution - gue
un  virtualbox-gue <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  virtualbox-gue <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-gue 5.0.36-dfsg- amd64        x86 virtualization solution - non
un  virtualbox-gue <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  virtualbox-mod <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  virtualbox-ose <none>       <none>       (no description available)
itsmylife
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  • Run `dmesg | tail -f` and post it – George Udosen Apr 25 '17 at 15:07
  • Is virtualization enabled in BIOS? – M. Becerra Apr 25 '17 at 15:18
  • Please edit your question to include the `terminal` output of `dpkg -l *virtualbox*`. – heynnema Apr 25 '17 at 16:48
  • after running `dmesg | tail -f` i got `[ 125.877596] PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key [ 165.660959] PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key [ 187.269065] PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key [ 267.519580] PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key [ 287.253300] PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key ` – itsmylife Apr 26 '17 at 07:36
  • i fix it when i disabled secure boot into bios – itsmylife Apr 26 '17 at 09:12
  • Does this answer your question? [Virtualbox Kernel driver not installed](https://askubuntu.com/questions/41118/virtualbox-kernel-driver-not-installed) – karel May 09 '21 at 04:18

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sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms

If you get dependency errors do

sudo apt-get -f install

After all dkms packages are correctly instaled do

sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
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