Getting Virtual Box Working on Ubuntu

I recently purchased a new laptop, and this time around I finally decided to ditch Windows and install Ubuntu (Linux). While trying to get Virtual Box running I ran into a small issue.

When I tried to configure the EPMVirt VM, it ran into this error:

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

However, when running the vboxconfig command, it fails

root@kingn-ThinkPad-X260:~# /sbin/vboxconfig
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.
There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.

Looking through the system logs, it appears the kernel module simply cannot be loaded:

tail -1000 /var/log/syslog

Dec 12 22:21:19 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
Dec 12 22:21:19 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: Starting VirtualBox Linux kernel module...
Dec 12 22:21:19 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh[11598]: vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
Dec 12 22:21:19 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
Dec 12 22:21:19 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh[11598]: vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
Dec 12 22:21:19 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh: VirtualBox kernel modules built.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh[11598]: vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: vboxdrv.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: Failed to start VirtualBox Linux kernel module.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: vboxdrv.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: vboxdrv.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: Started vboxballoonctrl-service.service.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: Started vboxautostart-service.service.
Dec 12 22:21:35 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: Started vboxweb-service.service.
Dec 12 22:21:41 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 dbus[891]: [system] 

To solve this I was able to read some online articles and find that we can disable the Secure Boot option in the BIOS settings to help fix the issue. Rebooting into the system BIOS:

Simply turning off secure boot seems to fix the problem,

root@kingn-ThinkPad-X260:~# /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
root@kingn-ThinkPad-X260:~#
kPad-X260 dbus[891]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
Dec 12 22:21:41 kingn-ThinkPad-X260 systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service.

Now, on to installing EPMVirt...