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Install VirtualBox on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux
Last updated on October 10, 2022
This how-to is about installing VirtualBox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Provided instructions should also work on CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux.
It is possible to install VirtualBox from rpm packages, which can be downloaded on the VirtualBox Linux downloads page. However, a yum-style repository is also provided – we’ll use the latter.
Install DKMS, use sudo
Before installing VirtualBox, one should install DKMS, as VirtualBox will build its own kernel module. This howto also supposes that you have added yourself to the sudoers list (of course, you may as well use su or log in as root).
DKMS has some important dependencies like gcc and kernel-devel. Use the following command line to install DKMS and its dependancies:sudo yum install dkms
Install Virtualbox
Once DKMS an its dependencies are installed, we can download and add the repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/:sudo wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
Finally, VirtualBox is ready to install:sudo yum install VirtualBox-6.1
Add yourself to the vboxusers group using the “Users and Groups” application or the command line:sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers your_user_name
It is possible to use VirtualBox without adding yourself (as a user) to the vboxusers group. If you don’t, some functions may be unavailable, as using USB devices on the guest system.
Run Virtualbox
VirtualBox should now be available in the menu or running VirtualBox. Don’t forget to install the non-free Extension Pack via the “File → Preferences → Extensions” menu.
Miscellaneous: USB, Network drives
If you get problems using USB, take a look at the CentOS Wiki. Make sure your user belongs to the usergroup vboxusers.
To share any folder as a network drive, just enter the following command at the MSDOS prompt:net use x: \\vboxsvr\your_shared_folder
By Johannes Eva, April 2012 – October 2022
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is there a way to setup the updates to run on a specific day of the week, eg: Saturdays at 6am? or something like that?
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What about the
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodicfile? It has the same content as/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.Personally, I would not recommend to configure the auto reboot (step 2).
One of the good things about linux is that nearly all updates do not require system reboot.
This setting makes linux behave like windows, doesn’t it?
It does need to reboot on kernel updates however. And this apparently checks whether a reboot is required before rebooting.
Stu*** comment… you’re just saying it shouldn’t do it because it shouldn’t behave like Windows. Something is not wrong, just because has the same behaviour. Then Linux shouldn’t store data in files, because Windows does the same, it shouldn’t use SSDs, USB disks, ..
Don’t uncomment
${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updatesunless you know what you’re doing. This will enable unattended NON-SECURITY updates, which may break your server configuration.