HOWTO: Install VirtualBox on Fedora | Ubuntu | Mint | OpenSUSE, Etc

Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a hypervisor for x86 computers from Oracle Corporation. Innotek GmbH first developed the product before a Sun Microsystems acquisition in 2008. Oracle has continued development since 2010.

VirtualBox may be installed on an existing host operating system; it can create and manage guest virtual machines, each with a guest operating system and its own virtual environment. Supported host operating systems include Linux, OS X, Windows , Solaris, and OpenSolaris; there are also ports to FreeBSD and Genode. Supported guest operating systems include versions and derivations of Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, Haiku and others. Since release 3.2.0, VirtualBox also allows limited virtualization of OS X guests on Apple hardware, though OSx86 can also be installed using VirtualBox.

Installing VirtualBox on Linux:

The easiest method to install virtualBox on linux is by downloading the  packages available corresponding to your distribution  from the VirtualBox Downloads page.

|  Download Page |

NB: LinuxMint users should select Ubuntu based packages as LinuxMint packages are similar to Ubuntu .

 Choose the package corresponding to  your Distribution and the Architecture  of the Operating System :

Here is the way you can use to know the Architecture  of your Operating System, Just type this Command:

# arch

if you are running 64bits Operating System Click on  AMD64 else if you are running 32bits click on  i386 .

After downloading of the package, you need to install the package, if you had downloaded the *.rpm package you can install it by the following command :

# cd Downloads/

# sudo rpm -ivh VirtualBox-*

 Else if you had downloaded the *.deb package you can install it with :

# cd Downloads/

# sudo dpkg -i VirtualBox-*

There is another way to install it from the Terminal,

Installing  VirtualBox From The Terminal:

# sudo yum -y install VirtualBox-4.3

If you are Ubuntu/LinuxMint/any other Ubuntu based distro user, you can use the command :

# sudo apt-get install virtualbox

If you are running Fedora 22 you should use the dnf Command :

# sudo dnf -y install VirtualBox-4.3

 That's it, You have installed VirtualBox on your Machine 

 

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