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 Fedora 15/16 via yum repository.
Step 1: Open terminal ( Accessories ——> System Tools ——> Terminal). Change to root user.
[geeksite@fedora~]$ su -
Step 2: Import Key.
[root@fedora~]# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | rpm --import -
Step 3: Download the fedora repo file for VirtualBox and Move it to /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
[root@fedora~]# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo [root@fedora~]# mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
Step 4: Update the repository.
[root@fedora~]# yum update
Step 4: Install dkms and other header files. 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. (This is Optional)
[root@fedora~]# yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms gcc gcc-c++
Step 5: Install VirtualBox 4.1 (Currently VirtualBox 4.1.8)
[root@fedora~]#yum -y install VirtualBox-4.1
Step 6: Add your user name in to vboxuser group. Like below.
[root@fedora~]#usermod -G -a vboxusers geeskite
Step 7: Start VirtualBox using following command.
[root@fedora~]#VirtualBox
Now you can start adding VM’s on VirtualBox.
