I am experiencing the same problem after upgrading to Vivid from Trusty.
sudo apt-get install virtualbox -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following NEW packages will be installed:
virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/21.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 89.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox.
(Reading database ... 267329 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox_4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-dkms.
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-dkms_4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-dkms (4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-qt.
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-qt_4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-qt (4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.14-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+15.04.20150202-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Setting up virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ...
insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided!
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-dkms:
virtualbox-dkms depends on virtualbox (>= 4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1); however:
Package virtualbox is not configured yet.
Package virtualbox-4.3 which provides virtualbox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-dkms (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt:
virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1); however:
Package virtualbox is not configured yet.
Package virtualbox-4.3 which provides virtualbox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup
error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message
indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
virtualbox
virtualbox-dkms
virtualbox-qt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Title:
The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
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