{"id":1444,"date":"2014-05-31T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T20:48:23","slug":"how-i-installed-virtualbox-4-3-on-centos-6-5-x86_64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"How I installed virtualbox 4.3 on CentOS 6.5 x86_64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to install virtualbox on CentOS 6.5 to debug a problem. It was a bit tricky so I decided to blog what I did.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All of these steps must be done as root unless otherwise specified.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1: Install the EPEL repository<\/p>\n<h2>\n<pre class=\"font-size:14 line-height:17 theme:vs2012-black lang:default decode:true \" >$ rpm -Uvh http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/6\/x86_64\/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm\r\n$ yum repolist<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 2: Create \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/virtualbox.repo<\/h2>\n<p>It should contain this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"font-size:14 line-height:17 theme:vs2012-black lang:default decode:true \" >[virtualbox]\r\nname=Oracle Linux \/ RHEL \/ CentOS-$releasever \/ $basearch - VirtualBox\r\nbaseurl=http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/rpm\/el\/$releasever\/$basearch\r\nenabled=1\r\ngpgcheck=1\r\ngpgkey=http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian\/oracle_vbox.asc<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 3: Install the necessary system packages<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"font-size:14 line-height:17 theme:vs2012-black lang:default decode:true \" >yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'\r\nyum install -y kernel-devel\r\nyum install -y dkms\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 4: Install VirtualBox<\/h2>\n<p>The setup step may take some time.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"font-size:14 line-height:17 theme:vs2012-black lang:default decode:true \" >yum list | grep -i virtualbox  # list the available choices\r\nyum install VirtualBox-4.3  # choose the most recent one\r\nservice vboxdrv setup<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 5: Add users to the vboxusers group<\/h2>\n<p>Substitute &lt;your_user_name&gt; with your user name.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"font-size:14 line-height:17 theme:vs2012-black lang:default decode:true \" >usermod -a -G vboxusers &lt;your_user_name&gt;<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 6: Run VirtualBox<\/h2>\n<p>This can be done as root or as one of the users in vboxusers group.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"font-size:14 line-height:17 theme:vs2012-black lang:default decode:true \" >VirtualBox<\/pre>\n<p>You will see this window popup:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot.png\" alt=\"Screenshot\" width=\"775\" height=\"577\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot.png 775w, https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screenshot-624x464.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to install virtualbox on CentOS 6.5 to debug a problem. It was a bit tricky so I decided to blog what I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}