Oracle VirtualBox is open source virtualization product for enterprise as well as home purpose, It is a x86 fully virtualizer for general purpose desktops. It is released under GNU GPL License. You can download it from official website.
It supports multiple guest operating system:
- Windows NT
- Windows 2000
- WIndows XP (32 bit/64 bit)
- Windows Vista (32 bit/64 bit)
- Windows 7 (32 bit/64 bit)
- Windows 8 (32 bit/64 bit)
- Windows 2003 Server (32 bit/64 bit)
- Windows 2008 Server (32 bit/64 bit)
- Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 Desktop / 7.04 – 12.10
- Debian
- openSUSE
- Mandriva
- Fedora
- RHEL/CentOS
- Mac OS X
- Solaris
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
This tutorial shows how to install VirtualBox 4.2.10(Latest VirtualBox 4.2) on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 via yum repository.
Step 1: Open terminal ( Accessories ——> System Tools ——> Terminal).
Step 2: Install header and development tools.
[root@itzgeek~/# yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
[root@itzgeek~/# yum update
Step 3: Download Oracle public key.
Step 4: Import Oracle public key.
Step 5: Download CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 repo file for VirtualBox and Move it into /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
[root@itzgeek~/]# mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
Step 6: Install VirtualBox 4.2 (This for VirtualBox 4.2.x version) and dkms.
Note: dkms package is to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next kernel upgrade
Step 7: Add your user name in to vboxuser group.
Step 8: Start VirtualBox using following command.
Now you can start adding VM’s on VirtualBox.
