При установке linux на virtualbox выдает ошибку

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This might be unusual, however my problem was fixed by enabling Hyper-V.
This was after hours of looking for solutions regarding Ubuntu 20 and Virtualbox 6.1. Tweaked many settings and finally decided to go against the most common advice and turn on Hyper-V (Win10).

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This might be unusual, however my problem was fixed by enabling Hyper-V.
This was after hours of looking for solutions regarding Ubuntu 20 and Virtualbox 6.1. Tweaked many settings and finally decided to go against the most common advice and turn on Hyper-V (Win10).

I am trying to install virtualbox. I had it installed previously and it worked. Today I tried to add another virtual machine and it started complaining about problems with dkms so I tried to purge and install everything with the following failure.

$  sudo apt install virtualbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dkms libgsoap-2.8.91 libqt5opengl5 libsdl1.2debian libvncserver1 virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:

I could not submit my question without skipping some output

Building initial module for 5.8.0-36-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/virtualbox-dkms.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.8.0-36-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-dkms (--configure):
 installed virtualbox-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox:
 virtualbox depends on virtualbox-dkms (>= 6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) | virtualbox-source (>= 6.1.10-dfsg-1~u
buntu1.20.04.1) | virtualbox-modules; however:
  Package virtualbox-dkms is not configured yet.
  Package virtualbox-source is not installed.
  Package virtualbox-modules is not installed.
  Package virtualbox-dkms which provides virtualbox-modules is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt:
 virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1); however:
  Package virtualbox is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                            No ap
port report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                       Processing
 triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.15-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-dkms
 virtualbox
 virtualbox-qt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

dkms error

$ cat /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/make.log DKMS make.log
for virtualbox-6.1.10 for kernel 5.8.0-36-generic (x86_64) Tue 12 Jan
12:40:32 GMT 2021 make: Entering directory
‘/usr/src/linux-headers-5.8.0-36-generic’ CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrv.o CC
[M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrvGip.o CC
[M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrvSem.o CC
[M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrvTracer.o CC
[M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/SUPLibAll.o CC
[M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/alloc-r0drv.o
CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/initterm-r0drv.o
CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/memobj-r0drv.o
CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/mpnotification-r0drv.o
CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/powernotification-r0drv.o
CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/assert-r0drv-linux.o
In file included from ./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:7,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:556,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:6,
from ./include/linux/preempt.h:78,
from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:79,
from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:32:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In
function ‘supdrvOSChangeCR4’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:38:
error: ‘cpu_tlbstate’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you
mean ‘cpuhp_state’? 760 | RTCCUINTREG uOld =
this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:318:9: note: in definition of macro
‘pcpu_size_call_return’ 318 | typeof(variable) pscr_ret;
| ^~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:24:
note: in expansion of macro ‘this_cpu_read’ 760 | RTCCUINTREG
uOld = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:38:
note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in 760 | RTCCUINTREG uOld =
this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:318:9: note: in definition of macro
‘pcpu_size_call_return’ 318 | typeof(variable) pscr_ret;
| ^~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:24:
note: in expansion of macro ‘this_cpu_read’ 760 | RTCCUINTREG
uOld = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:290:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o]
Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs…. make[1]: ***
[scripts/Makefile.build:519:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv] Error 2 make: ***
[Makefile:1780: /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build] Error 2 make:
Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-headers-5.8.0-36-generic’

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Removing kernel versions like 5.8 and downgrading to 5.4.0-60-generic has solved the problem. After booting with kernel 5.4.0-60-generic I was able to install Virtualbox using synaptic and my new virtual machine works.

answered Jan 17, 2021 at 13:29