How To Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18

VirtualBox is a free and open-source hypervisor software, allows you to create and run a guest operating systems (“virtual machines”) such as Linux and Windows on top of the host operating system. VirtualBox supports both software-based and Hardware-assisted virtualization. In this tutorial we will learn How To Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation VirtualBox on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms

Step 2. Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First, run the commands below to add VirtualBox repository key:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

Next, we need to download and import the Oracle GPG public key to Ubuntu system with the following command:

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Install the VirtualBox 5, command as follows:

apt-get update
apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

Step 4. Accessing VirtualBox.

Once it’s installed, start it from your application menu, or run the command below to start VirtualBox from terminal or find the application on your ubuntu dash and launch it.:

virtualbox

Install-VirtualBox

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed VirtualBox. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) server. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official VirtualBox web site.

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