Oracle Corporation Team has released its new major version VirtualBox 6.0.4 on 28 January 2019. 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 – Prerequsities
First of all, configure the VirtualBox DNF repository on your system. You can simply download the repo file from its official site and place it under at /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo. Navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d directory and use one of below commands as per your operating system.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
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.
sudo dnf install binutils gcc make patch libgomp dkms qt5-qtx11extras libxkbcommon sudo dnf install glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel compat-libvpx5
After installing latest kernel and kernel headers, let’s reboot your system and start with Latest kernel.
sudo reboot
Step 2 – Configure Environment
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 4.16.5-300.fc28.x86_64 directory under /usr/src/kernels/ . Make sure you are using correct source path.
export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
echo $KERN_DIR /usr/src/kernels/4.16.5-300.fc28.x86_64
Step 3 – Install VirtualBox on Fedora
Use the following command to install VirtualBox using DNF command line tool. It will install the latest version of VirtualBox 6.0 on your system.
sudo dnf install VirtualBox-6.0
After installation, we need to rebuild kernel modules using the following command.
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
Step 4 – 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
Thank you.
Just wanted to update this a bit for Fedora 30 users.
1. The libvpx4 prerequisite is no longer available for Fedora 30 in the repositories this guide uses. Instead switch it to compat-libvpx5.
2. In order to run ‘ /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup ‘, you need to have root privileges and have Secure Boot disabled in your BIOS. Try running ‘ /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup ‘ again and they will tell you which addition kernels to install based on your kernel in order for VirtualBox to run. Just copy paste and run them, there are 2.
If I’m not wrong then the libvpx prerequisite is no longer available for fedora 30 in the repositories this guide uses
compat-libvpx5 is the correct one
Thank you. You are right. compat-libvpx4 wasn’t available in the repo. compat-libvpx5 worked
Thank you very much!
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup this command required root privileges.