First is googled the error message "vboxdrv not loaded" and ubuntu 16.04
This lead me to this ask ubuntu answer.
I read this a few times and began to understand that the issue is, vortial box's kernel modules are not signed which means that Ubuntu running secure boot will fail to load those modules. Since I have never signed modules before I figured I would read this enough times to understand. Unfortunately this answer in and of it's self was not informative enough for me to be comfortable with fixing this problem, I must know more.
I decided to take a look at this gist, linked to in the above answer. Again, this was insufficient for me to fully grok what was heppening but I did realise that:
- I needed to already have a directory with "keys" in