Dtyjlui

Basically after you install those two packages you also need to do the reconfiguration:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms

sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox

sudo modprobe vboxdrv

And to fix eth0:

sudo modprobe vboxnetflt

I solved this problem by following commands:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms

The reason for the problem is that you have booted the 3.11 kernel while the dpkg-reconfigure expects a 3.13 kernel. That's why you get the message 'no suitable module for the running kernel'.

Be sure to update your bootloader.

In my case the bootloader is updated from another OS (Debian) and booting to that and running sudo update-grub solved the problem.

I used the vendor’s official guide for Debian-based Linux distributions:

printf 'deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian %s contribn' "$(lsb_release -cs)" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list



wget -qO- https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox{,_2016}.asc | sudo apt-key add -



sudo apt-get purge virtualbox

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0 dkms

In my case, the issue was having virtualbox-4.1 installed alongside virtualbox-4.2. Once I uninstalled 4.1, I could run sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup and sudo modprobe vboxdrv just fine, as well as start VMs.

You have to check the version of gcc your are using. I was facing the same problem of virtualbox kernel compilation.
I fixed the issue using this post https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12467

You probably are using a outdated version of gcc that is different of the gcc used by the Linux kernel.

Check the default version your are using :

gcc -v

Mine is gcc version 4.4.7 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.7-8ubuntu1)

And the gcc version your kernel was compiled with

dmesg | more

[    0.000000] Linux version 3.13.0-83-generic (buildd@lgw01-55) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #127-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 11 00:25:37 UTC 2016 (Ubuntu 3.13.0-83.127-generic 3.13.11-ckt35)

or with

dpkg -l gcc

If the gcc versions are different like on my system, switch your default gcc compiler

sudo update-alternatives --config gcc

then virtualbox-dkms installation should works fine

sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox-dkms

The clue is here: Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.

Since you have the first, it must still want the second.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Then make sure everything is up to date.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

I had the same issue. I found that the source of the problem is most probably that I'm using a custom kernel.

Downloading the latest .deb package from virtualbox.org, and installing it by dpkg -i has solved the problem in my case.

Try

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup