VirtualBox

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Installation

Reference instructions can be found here:

  • Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list (here for Ubuntu Karmic):
  • deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free
  • Add the Sun public key for apt-secure, then install
    wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1
    

The group vboxusers is created during installation.

  • Users of the VirtualBox must be member of that group.
  • The daemon for the network interfaces will be assigned to that group.

VirtualBox requires a kernel module vboxdrv.

  • The default location of the module is given by setting KDIR=[fullpath] in file /etc/default/virtualbox.
  • The kernel module can be compiled with
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup