Last week we saw how to install VirtualBox on Windows. VirtualBox is available for various flavours of Linux. Today we shall see how to install VirtualBox on Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS using YUM. Installing and using VirtualBox is quite simple. All you need is to follow the below guide which installs VirtualBox version 4.3.6 using YUM.
Step1: Configure public YUM repo for VirtualBox
Using your favorite editor create the file virtualbox.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/ and add the below lines of code:
[virtualbox] name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/$releasever/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
Step2: Install VirtualBox using yum
After the YUM repository configuration, run the below command:
#yum install VirtualBox-4.3
Sample Output:
Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package VirtualBox-4.3.x86_64 0:4.3.6_91406_el5-1 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
VirtualBox-4.3 x86_64 4.3.6_91406_el5-1 virtualbox 87 M
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 87 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.6_91406_el5-1.x86_64.rpm | 87 MB 07:19
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : VirtualBox-4.3 1/1
Creating group ‘vboxusers’. VM users must be member of that group!
No precompiled module for this kernel found — trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Installed:
VirtualBox-4.3.x86_64 0:4.3.6_91406_el5-1
Complete!
Below video shows the yum repo configuration and installation of VirtualBox using YUM.
