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.
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)
- Solaris
- OpenSolaris
- OpenBSD
This guide shows howto install VirtualBox 6.0 (currently 6.0.14) on Fedora 31/30/29/28, CentOS 8.0/7.7, Red Hat (RHEL) 8.0/7.7. This guide uses Virtual Box own yum repositories.
1. Change to root User
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i
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 31/30/29/28 users
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
## CentOS 8.0/7.7 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.0/7.7 users
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
3. Update latest packages and check your kernel version
Update packages
## Fedora 31/30/29/28 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
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 31/30/29/28 ##
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
5. Install VirtualBox Latest Version 6.0 (currently 6.0.14)
## Fedora 31/30/29/28/27 ##
dnf install VirtualBox-6.0
## CentOS/RHEL 8 ##
dnf install VirtualBox-6.0
## CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
yum install VirtualBox-6.0
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-6.0 not VirtualBox.
Rebuild kernel modules with following command:
## Fedora 31/30/29/28 and CentOS/RHEL 8/7 ##
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
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
7. Start VirtualBox
Use launcher from menu or simply run VirtualBox as normal user:
VirtualBox
Troubleshooting
If you have problems with KERN_DIR parameter or your kernel directory is not automatically detected then set KERN_DIR environment variable manually, using following method:
## Current running kernel on Fedora ##
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
## Current running kernel on CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) ##
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m`
## Fedora example ##
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686
## CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) example ##
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64
## Export KERN_DIR ##
export KERN_DIR
Check also:
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
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