Error on Vagrant Up on Linux

Important pre-amble:

Please note that I wrote this answer back in 2015/2016 and targeted VirtualBox and Vagrant and Ubuntu headless 14.04.

Your mileage may vary after a while.

If you have a similar problem but for a different version, feel free to edit this answer and append your answer above my answer for Ubuntu 14.04 Let's help everyone to progress together.

I myself will do the same and update this answer for newer versions when I start to use them.

Answers:

Ubuntu 14.04 Headless with Vagrant and VirtualBox

I found this page when I had the same issue.

Now I have solved mine. I hope that my solution can help you.

Download the latest AMD64 for virtualbox and install

1. Go https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
2. Choose the AMD64 which is a deb because I am trying to run vagrant on a 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 server 64-bit edition (My original problem was that I had used the i386)
3. Then as root, dpkg -i whatever_is_the_latest_version_virtualbox.deb
4. apt-get -f install This will install the dependencies

Download the latest AMD64 for vagrant and install

1. Go https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
2. Choose Debian 64 bit
3. Then as root, dpkg -i whatever_is_the_latest_version_vagrant.deb
4. apt-get -f install This will install the dependencies

Then do the rest of your vagrant box setup.

It should work now.

On Ubuntu 16.04 make sure to uninstall any previous versions of virtualbox:

sudo apt-get purge virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox

The reinstall virtualbox as downloaded from virtualbox.org

sudo dpkg -i Downloads/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.22-115126-Ubuntu-xenial_amd64.deb

This fixed the error for me.

It has to help:

sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

Then launch your virtual machine. It helped me ;-)