Friday, February 13, 2015
HowTo Install VirtualBox on Fedora 18 x64
- download VirtualBox 4.2.6 for Linux hosts and VirtualBox 4.2.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack on this website https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- choose the AMD64 architecture for Fedora 18 ("Spherical Cow")
Step2:
- open terminal and type the following
su -
yum update -y
reboot
**your computer will reboot
Step3:
su -
yum install -y dkms gcc
cd /home/**user**/Downloads
yum install -y VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.6_82870_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
usermod -a -G vboxusers administrator
Step4:
- open a new terminal and type the following
VirtualBox
Step5:
- the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager will pop-up
- click File->Preferences
- select Extensions
- press the add package button
- find and select Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.6-82870.vbox-extpack
- press Install
- read and understand the VirtualBox licence (click and drag the scrollbar up to the bottom to activate the "I Agree" button)
- supply your root password
- your done!
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