| • danielfgom | |
| Aug 22 2016, 10:31 AM |
Hi,
This is absolutely essential for anyone wanting to run multiple operating systems. I work in IT and want to use solus as my main OS but as a SysAdmin it is ESSENTIAL that I also am able to run Windows to access and administer systems.
Thanks
Name: Virtualbox Homepage: https://www.virtualbox.org/ Is it Open Source: yes Link to source tarball/zip file: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
| R3133 virtualbox | |||
| D1228 | R3133:c162ad1109f7 Initial version of virtualbox | ||
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Resolved | None | T322 Oracle Virtualbox | |||
| Invalid | None | T2837 Oracle Virtualbox |
I am not sure what the current status of adding this to Software Center is, but you can install VirtualBox by following the instructions on the Solus wiki.
https://wiki.solus-project.com/VirtualBox
They also list a few other applications on there, like Chrome Beta.
Correction:
Source tarball/zip: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/
Last version is: 5.1.6
Having this in the repos would be really good, as at least vagrant and minikube (not in repos yet) would have it as a dependency.
Download virtualbox and Execute code
Mount cd - autofs sudo eopkg upgrade sudo eopkg install gcc make autoconf binutils kernel-headers xorg-server-devel sudo eopkg it -c system.devel sudo eopkg it kernel-headers sudo sh ~/Downloads/VirtualBox.run
The virtualbox package is available on unstable. Feedback are welcome, especially the impact on the boot time (can be checked with systemd-analyze blame)
If you want to have access to the usb peripherals from the guest, you must add your user to the group vboxusers.
So I just tried, but unfortunately can't make it work because there's no /sbin/vboxconfig which VirtualBox tells me I need to run to compile a module.
If you are on the -current kernel (uname -a) then you should install virtualbox-current
virtualbox is the modules for the -lts kernel
@sixtyfive /sbin/vboxconfig isn't required.
If you manually installed virtualbox earlier (not from the solus repository), please make sure to uninstall it. There is an uninstall script in /opt/VirtualBox
Then, please make sure to install the virtualbox package that corresponds to the kernel you use : virtualbox for the lts kernel or virtualbox-current for the current kernel.
I am not sure if the service automatically start once it is installed, you can check with systemctl status vboxdrv.service. If not you can manually start it. After a reboot it will be started anyway.