

You can check the version with the "vboxmanage" utility vagrant]# vboxmanage -v6.0.14r133895 Final Thoughts on Installing VirtualBox 6.0 on CentOS 7 vagrant]# /sbin/vboxconfigvboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox : Starting VirtualBox : Building VirtualBox kernel modules. Next, we'll need to install the VirtualBox Kernel Modules and start the services, You can do this by running the following command. yum install VirtualBox-6.0 -y Step 5) Building the Kernel Modules and Starting VirtualBox Now that we have all the code-requisites in place, we can install VirtualBox 6.o by running the following command.

In the error message you will find the names of the packages you need to install. If you are unsure, you can run /sbin/vboxconfig, this will attempt to build the kernel module, but fail. Once you have the kernel number you can search for the distribution containing the headers. You can get the kernel number by running the following command.

Next install the Linux kernel "header" files matching the current kernel for adding new hardware support to the system. This is needed to et your system up to build kernel modules sudo yum install gcc make perl -y Install the gcc make perl packages from your distribution. Update yum repositories index using “yum repolist” command and codess “y” to accept VirtualBox repo keys cat /etc//virtualbox.reponame=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBoxbaseurl=\$releasever/\$basearchenabled=1 Copy and Paste the following command in your terminal. Step 1) Creating a Repo and Importing VBox Public KeysĬreate a VirtualBox repo file under the folder “ /etc/”. Laptop or Bare metal System running CentOS 7 or later.For more information please visit Oracle VM VirtualBox VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux (Including Ubuntu and CentOS), or macOS as its host OS and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6 and 3.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. Oracle VM VirtualBox: is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization, developed by Oracle Corporation. The following tutorial is intended to explain the procedure for deploying VirtualBox on a System running CentOS 7.
