VirtualBox 6.1.28 / 6.1.29 on Fedora 35/34/33, CentOS/RHEL 8/7

Oracle VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Check video guide howto install VirtualBox 6.1.28/6.1.29 on Fedora 35/34/33 using .run installer:

Check video guide howto install VirtualBox 6.1.28 on Fedora 34/33 using Oracle’s own dnf repo:

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VirtualBox supports a large number of guest operating systems:

Windows 3.x
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 10
DOS
Linux (Kernel 2.4, 2.6, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.10, 3.16, 3.18, 4.1, 4.4, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11)
Solaris
OpenSolaris
OpenBSD

This guide shows howto install VirtualBox 6.1 (currently 6.1.28 or 6.1.29) on Fedora 35/34/33/32, CentOS 8.3/7.9, Red Hat (RHEL) 8.3/7.9. This guide uses Oracle’s own Virtual Box .run installer.

Before installation

Change to root User

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

Make sure that you system is up-to-date and you are running latest kernel

## Fedora 35/34/33/32/31 and CentOS/RHEL 8 ##
dnf update

## CentOS 7 ##
yum update

After update reboot your system and boot using latest kernel:

reboot

1. Install Oracle’s VirtualBox 6.1.28 on 34/33/32, CentOS 8.3/7.9, Red Hat (RHEL) 8.3/7.9

1.1. Change to root User

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

1.2. Install Fedora or RHEL Repo Files

Note: CentOS 8/RHEL 8 users, install this, but you still need test build currently.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

## Fedora 34/33/32 users
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

## CentOS 8.3/7.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.3/7.9 users
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo

1.3. Update latest packages and check your kernel version

Update packages

## Fedora 34/33/32 and CentOS/RHEL 8 ##
dnf update

## CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
yum update

Check that that you are running latest installed kernel version
Output of following commands version numbers should match:

rpm -qa kernel |sort -V |tail -n 1

uname -r

Note: If you got kernel update or run older kernel than newest installed then reboot:

reboot

1.4. Install following dependency packages

CentOS 8/7 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8/7 needs EPEL repository, install it with following command:

## CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 ##
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

## CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 ##
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

## Fedora 34/33/32 ##
dnf install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms qt5-qtx11extras libxkbcommon

## CentOS/RHEL 8 ##
dnf install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

## CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

1.5. Install VirtualBox Latest Version 6.1 (currently 6.1.28)

## Fedora 34/33/32 ##
dnf install VirtualBox-6.1

## CentOS/RHEL 8 ##
dnf install VirtualBox-6.1

## CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
yum install VirtualBox-6.1

Note:
This command create automatically vboxusers group and VirtualBox user must be member of that group.
This command also build needed kernel modules.
Package is VirtualBox-6.1 not VirtualBox.

Rebuild kernel modules with following command:

## Fedora 34/33/32 and CentOS/RHEL 8/7 ##
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

1.6. Add VirtualBox User(s) to vboxusers Group

Replace user_name with your own user name or some another real user name.

usermod -a -G vboxusers user_name

1.7. Start VirtualBox

Use launcher from menu or simply run VirtualBox as normal user:

VirtualBox

2. Install Oracle’s VirtualBox 6.1.28 (stable) / 6.1.29 (test build) / 6.1.97 on Fedora 35/34/33/32 using .run installer

Here is guide howto download and install VirtualBox using .run installer.

2.1. Change to root User

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2.2. Remove VirtualBox RPM Installations

This should not touch (remove) your virtual machines, but you can of course backup everything.

dnf remove VirtualBox\* virtualbox\*

2.3. Download VirtualBox 6.1 Installer(s)

cd ~

## Download VirtualBox 6.1.28-147628 latest stable build ##
wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.28/VirtualBox-6.1.28-147628-Linux_amd64.run

## Download VirtualBox 6.1.29-147826 latest test build ##
wget https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-6.1.29-147826-Linux_amd64.run

## Download VirtualBox 6.1.97-147788 latest development snapshot ##
wget https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-6.1.97-147788-Linux_amd64.run

Check current versions from VirtualBox Linux builds and VirtualBox test builds.

2.4. Make Installer File Executable

chmod +x VirtualBox-6.1.28-147628-Linux_amd64.run

## OR ##

chmod +x VirtualBox-6.1.29-147826-Linux_amd64.run

## OR ##

chmod +x VirtualBox-6.1.97-147788-Linux_amd64.run

1.5. Install Following Dependency Packages

dnf install python2.7 binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms qt5-qtx11extras libxkbcommon

1.6. Install VirtualBox Latest Version 6.1 (currently 6.1.28, 6.1.29 or 6.1.97)

./VirtualBox-6.1.28-147628-Linux_amd64.run

## OR ##

./VirtualBox-6.1.29-147826-Linux_amd64.run

## OR ##

./VirtualBox-6.1.97-147788-Linux_amd64.run

Note:
This command create automatically vboxusers group and VirtualBox user must be member of that group.
This command also build needed kernel modules.

You can rebuild kernel modules with following command if needed:

/opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh setup

1.7. Add VirtualBox User(s) to vboxusers Group