VirtualBox 4.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 unable to run VM

Solution 1:

The installed kernel was absolute. Its headers is not any more in the repository. So the best thing to do is to update the kernel to last version in the repository.

Check which kernel running:

uname -a

Update the kernel, linux-generic is a meta package to keep current version of the kernel & its headers:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-generic

Reboot, Check again:

uname -a

If it didn't work, then use Synaptic to install its headers or upgrade/install to the last kernel release (search for "linux").

Solution 2:

Not an answer, but I can confirm that Virtual Box runs perfectly on Ubuntu 13.10.

Virtual box was installed as a .deb file instead of using the virtual box repository.

$ virtualbox --help | head -1
Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager 4.3.6

$ uname -sri
Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64

$ lsb_release -d
Description:    Ubuntu 13.10

$ modinfo vboxdrv
filename:       /lib/modules/3.11.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/vboxdrv.ko
version:        4.3.6 (0x001a0007)
license:        GPL
description:    Oracle VM VirtualBox Support Driver
author:         Oracle Corporation
srcversion:     1AA7B037C45EF6842CB7222
depends:        
vermagic:       3.11.0-15-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           force_async_tsc:force the asynchronous TSC mode (int)

Hope that helps you.