Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.0 released. Install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.0 is a virtualization software package.
Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers. It allows users to set up multi-platform virtual machine environments for software development, testing, and general purpose operating system (OS) virtualization, with optional runtime encryption.
The 5.1 release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems. New main capabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1 are:
- Improved Performance: Significantly improved performance for multi-CPU virtual machines and networking.
- Bug Reporting Tool: New utility able to collect all the information and logs related to the host and guest operating system, for debug or analysis purposes.
- Improved Logging Window: New logging functionalities to highlight and filter information related to guest Virtual Machines.
- Improved multimedia availability: Improved support for different USB devices and multi-channel audio availability.
- Flash storage emulation: New NVMHCI storage controller emulation available, able to emulate NVME devices – Flash storage – on guest Virtual Machine.
- Improved Linux integration: Automatic modules deployment in case of a Linux Kernel upgrade and improved systemd integration for the latest releases of popular Linux distributions.
Install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-5.1
Install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 15.10
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 15.10:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wily contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-5.1
Install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 15.04
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 15.04:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xentrusty contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-5.1
Remove Virtualbox from Ubuntu
If you wish to uninstall Virtualbox from Linux Ubuntu, run the command given below:
sudo apt remove virtualbox-5.1