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 2003 Server (32 bit/64 bit)
- Windows 2008 Server (32 bit/64 bit)
- Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 Desktop / 7.04 – 11.04
- Debian
- openSUSE
- Mandriva
- Fedora
- RHEL/CentOS
- Mac OS X
- Solaris
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
This tutorial shows how to install VirtualBox 4.1.(Latest VirtualBox 4.1.8) on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 via yum repository.
Step 1: Open terminal ( Applications ——> System Tools ——> Terminal). Change to root user.
[raj@geeksite~]$ su -
Step 2: Download the CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 repo file for VirtualBox and
[root@geeksite~]# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
Step 3: Move it to /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
[root@geeksite~]# mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
Step 4: Install VirtualBox 4.1 (Currently VirtualBox 4.1.8)
[root@geeksite~]#
yum -y install VirtualBox-4.1
Step 5: Start VirtualBox using following command.
[root@geeksite~]#
VirtualBox
Now you can start adding VM’s on VirtualBox.