Virtualbox is not your only option if you want to use Vagrant. Vagrant has decent plugins for qemu (vagrant-libvirt) and lxd (vagrant-lxd)
Make sure you get your KVM, Qemu and libvirt setup right and run:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
vagrant init generic/ubuntu1804
vagrant up --provider=libvirt
You can export VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=libvirt to avoid passing --provider=libvirt to vagrant all the time.vagrant-lxd is less mature but just as useful, especially when you need to run stuff with erratic RSS graphs.