Unlike VMware Workstation Pro, VirtualBox is a free, open source, cross-platform virtualization software package. I hope you have found it informative, please don’t hesitate to share your feedback and queries in the below comments section.Oracle VM VirtualBox is a popular Type 2 hypervisor available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. To check VirtualBox version, Click on ‘ Help’ and then ‘ About VirtualBox’Ībove output confirms that we have installed Oracle VirtualBox of Version 6.1.26. Search VirtualBox from search dash and then click on its icon,

Perfect, above confirms that VirtualBox extension pack has been installed successfully. Use following VBoxManage command to install downloaded extension pack file $ sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.26.vbox-extpackĪbove will command will prompt to Accept ‘ License terms and conditions’, so type ‘ Y’ and hit enter. Use below wget command to download it’s extension pack file, $ wget Once VirtualBox and its dependencies are installed successfully then install VirtualBox extension pack. Run beneath command configure VirtualBox apt repository $ echo 'deb $(lsb_release -cs) contrib' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt//virtualbox.list Step 3) Install latest version of VirtualBoxĮxecute the following commands to install virtualbox with apt command, $ sudo apt update

So, to install latest VirtualBox, first we must configure official oracle VirtualBox package repository, run following command to import oracle virtualbox public keys $ wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add. VirtualBox package and its dependencies are available in the default Ubuntu 20.04 package repositories but that VirtualBox will not be the latest one. Open the terminal and run following apt command to update package index $ sudp apt update Step 2) Configure Oracle VirtualBox Repository

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