kernel – Virtualbox Installation Problems on Ubuntu 24.04.1

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I am trying to install Virtual box but it keeps giving me problems, the manager window will open fine but it keeps giving me this message in the terminal.

WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
     Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
     headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.

     You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

I reinstalled it and then I had these errors in installation.

× virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-09-19 11:25:15 +03; 1min>
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 34263 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=>
        CPU: 45ms

Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: Starting virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox>
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi virtualbox[34263]:  * Loading VirtualBox kernel modules...
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi virtualbox[34263]:  * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use>
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi virtualbox[34263]:    ...fail!
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Control process exited, c>
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Failed with result 'exit->
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: Failed to start virtualbox.service - LSB: Vir>
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× virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-09-19 11:25:15 +03; 1min 59s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 34263 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 45ms

Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: Starting virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module...
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi virtualbox[34263]:  * Loading VirtualBox kernel modules...
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi virtualbox[34263]:  * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi virtualbox[34263]:    ...fail!
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 19 11:25:15 Moudi systemd[1]: Failed to start virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module.
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