Comment 23 for bug 1736116

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Yaroslav (friend.yara) wrote : Re: Host with kernel 4.13 freezes when starting a VM with VirtualBox

I solved same problem by installing virtualbox 5.2 from virtualbox.org:

$ sudo apt remove --purge virtualbox*
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt install virtualbox-5.2

Then download VirtualBox 5.2.4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack from:

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.4/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.4-119785.vbox-extpack

and open it in VirtuialBox to install.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, 4.13.0-26-generic