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Instalando o Virtualbox no Ubuntu com dual boot

Instalando os pré requisitos

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Configurando o Apt repositório

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Oracle VirtualBox PPA

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib"

Instalar o virtualbox

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2
virtualbox

No ubuntu 18:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Tive o seguinte erro

~$ sudo /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

Como foi resolvido

Tive que entrar na bios e desabilitar o security boot UEFI.

link: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2350741