The VirtualBox is the most used Virtualization platform by the users. It is free and opensource hypervisor for x86 computers. You can easily install VirtualBox on a Debian Linux system with simple steps.
This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Debian 9 (Stretch) Linux machine.
Step 1 – Prerequsities
Login to your Debian server with root or sudo privileged user and update current packages of your system to the latest version.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2 – Add VirtualBox PPA
Now, you need to add Oracle VirtualBox PPA to Ubuntu system. You can do this by running the below command on your system.
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
This command will create a file and make entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list.
Step 3 – Import Sign Key
After adding the required apt repository on your system, download and import the Oracle public key for apt-secure using following commands.
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Step 4 – Install VirtualBox on Debian
You are ready now to install VirtualBox on a Debian system. Run the following commands on the terminal to complete the VirtualBox installation on a Debian system.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0
Step 5 – Launch VirtualBox
We can use launcher link on your Desktop system to start VirtualBox or simply use command from a terminal.
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Thanks for this tutorial, it helped me a lot.
I would like to suggest you to create a virtualbox.list file instead of changing the sources.list, like this:
echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
It’s a way to keep sources.list with just Debian repositories.
Thank you.
Hi Leandro, Thanks for your suggestion and I agree with you. So updated tutorial accordingly.
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