Oracle VirtualBox is open source virtualization product for enterprise as well as home purpose, It is 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 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.
