Vagrant and Virtualbox (6.1?) and Debian Bullseye

Problem description

There is a problem when using Vagrant and VirtualBox on Debian Bullseye: https://superuser.com/questions/1769582/vagrant-virtualbox-on-debian-bullseye

Prerequisites

You might need perform full uninstall of previous installations of virtualbox (if you had it installed) before going on with installation process. How to do it properly is described here and it comes down to running:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -f
sudo apt remove --purge *virtualbox*

Solution

To circumvent it you need to install Vagrant and VirtualBox manually, not from Debian’s repository (BTW. installing from Debian’s repository is impossible since while installing vagrant package manager automatically removes virtualbox package and vice versa!).

The script that is tested to install both programs and having them working properly is given below:

# Install requirements 
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y build-essential gcc make perl dkms

# Install VirtualBox
mkdir ~/tempInstallationDir/
wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.42/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.42-155177~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb -O ~/tempInstallationDir/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.42-155177~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ~/tempInstallationDir/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.42-155177~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -f -y
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
rm -rf ~/tempInstallationDir/


# Install Vagrant
wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y vagrant

# Setup Vagrant project
mkdir -p ~/vagrant_getting_started
cd ~/vagrant_getting_started

# Create Vagrantfile and modify it
vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64
echo "Vagrant.configure(\"2\") do |config|" > ~/vagrant_getting_started/Vagrantfile
echo "  config.vm.box = \"hashicorp/bionic64\"" >> ~/vagrant_getting_started/Vagrantfile
echo "  config.vm.synced_folder \"~/data\", \"/vagrant_data\"" >> ~/vagrant_getting_started/Vagrantfile
echo "end" >> ~/vagrant_getting_started/Vagrantfile

# Add box and start vagrant 
vagrant box add --provider=virtualbox hashicorp/bionic64
mkdir -p ~/data
vagrant up --provider=virtualbox

echo 
echo "To log into vm run:"
echo
echo "    cd ~/vagrant_getting_started && vagrant ssh"
echo
echo "To stop vagratn run:"
echo
echo "    cd ~/vagrant_getting_started && vagrant destroy"
echo
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