Error on Vagrant Up on Linux

Question

I try to run vagrant on my Ubuntu 14.04. So for, I did these steps:

-Install vagrant -Install virtualbox -added box for provider

then I run the

vagrant up

command.

After running the command, I take these output and at the and there is an error message which I cannot figure out how can I solve and run it correctly.

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...

==> default: Checking if box 'udacity/ud381' is up to date...

==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...

==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...

==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...

default: Adapter 1: nat 

==> default: Forwarding ports...

default: 5000 (guest) => 5000 (host) (adapter 1)  default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1) 

==> default: Booting VM... There was an error while executing VBoxManage, a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["startvm", "0399f946-6a87-4310-a22d-c1a4525ae2f0", "--type", "headless"]

Stderr: VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'ud381_default_1463617458900_49294' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1) VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

What should I do to fix these error ?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

It has to help:

sudo /sbin/vboxconfig 

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