Oracle VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. It installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems at the same time. Click here to read more about VirtualBox
Oracle has released its new major version VirtualBox 6.0.4 . In this release VirtualBox has improves stability and fixes regressions. To read more about this release read changelog. This article will help you to install
Step 1 – Add Required Yum Repositories
Firstly you are required to add VirtualBox yum repository in your system. Download repository file from its official site and place it under at /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo .First navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and use one of below commands as per your operating system.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
The CentOS and RedHat users also required to add EPEL yum repository using one of the following commands.
### On CentOS/RHEL 7 ### rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ### On CentOS/RHEL 6 ### rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Step 2 – Install Required Packages
Before installing VirtualBox make sure to install all required packages to run VirtualBox like kernel-headers, kernel-devels etc. Use the following command to install the required packages.
yum install gcc make patch dkms qt libgompyum install kernel-headers kernel-devel fontforge binutils glibc-headers glibc-devel
After installing latest kernel and kernel headers, let’s reboot your system and start with Latest kernel.
reboot
Step 3 – Setup Environment Variable
VirtualBox installation required kernel source code to install required modules, So we need to configure environment variable KERN_DIR to which VirtualBox get kernel source code. In my case latest kernel source is available in 2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 directory under /usr/src/kernels/ . Make sure you are using correct source path.
export KERN_DIR =/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
Step 4 – Install Oracle VirtualBox and Setup
Use the following command to install VirtualBox using the yum command line tool. It will install the latest version of VirtualBox 5.2 on your system.
yum install VirtualBox-6.0
After installation, we need to rebuild kernel modules using the following command.
service vboxdrv setup
Step 5 – Launch VirtualBox
Use following command to start VirtualBox from X windows. You can switch to GUI mode using init 5 or startx commands from terminal.
virtualbox
This seems to work for me, where all other guides have failed.
Many thanks,
Hreinn!
Centos 7.6 (kernel 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64)
VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.24_128163_el7-1.x86_64
Rather than
sudo service vboxdrv setup
which others have pointed out fails, use:
sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
]# vboxmanage -v
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
5.2.6r120293
Getting this error while installing on centos7. Any idea to fix this?
hi i have a quetion for you:
There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
how to resolve this problem???
Your title is misleading. There is no Virtualbox release for Fedora 27.
Hi Nibs, Thanks for your comments, I have updated the title.
Actually below page was opening but its opening 26 page.
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/27/