How to install Oracle VM Virtualbox extension pack in Ubuntu. How to run Virtualbox in Ubuntu. Install Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox, an x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle.
Oracle’s Virtual Box is one of the easiest to use virtual machines that run under Linux. In simple words, Oracle VM VirtualBox allows users to run any operating system on a single machine and to freely switch between OS running simultaneously.
VirtualBox 5.1.4 (released 2016-08-16)
The latest release of Oracle VM Virtualbox extension pack brings various powerful features. Some of notable ones are listed:
- GUI: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
- Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests (5.1.0 regression; bug #15611)
- Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
- USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
- USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions (bug #15747)
- PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address (bug #9517)
- NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
- VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled (bug #15748)
- VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd (bug #14288)
- Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low (bug #14982)
- EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled (bug #12161)
- OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
- VBoxManage: Don’t try to set the medium type if there is no change (bug #13850)
- Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues (bugs #15701 and #15702)
- Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions (bug #15717)
- Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests (bug #15665)
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes (bug #15621)
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later (bug #15769)
- Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade (bug #15692)
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop (bug #15511)
- Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests (bug #15257)
- Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000 (bug #15661)
Install Virtualbox 5.1.4 in Ubuntu
Oracle VM Virtualbox extension pack can be installed on Ubuntu Linux Systems. There are many steps in installing Oracle Virtualbox on Ubuntu:
- Setup Apt Repository
- Setup Oracle public key
- Install Oracle Virtualbox
Let us see how to install Oracle Virtualbox on Ubuntu Systems:
Step 1: Setup Apt Repository
To begin the installation of Oracle Virtualbox, firstly edit /etc/apt/sources.list file to setup Apt repository. Run the following command:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
For other Ubuntu releases, replace xenial with Ubuntu codemane.
Step 2: Setup Oracle Public Key
Once the required apt repository is added in the Ubuntu systems, run the following command to import the Oracle public key:
wget -q -O - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Step 3: Install Oracle VirtualBox
Once everything is done, it’s time to install Oracle Virtualbox:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
Now that Oracle Virtualbox is installed, it’s time to start VirtualBox. You can do it via Ubuntu Dash or simply run the following command from Terminal to install Virtualbox.
virtualbox