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Installing VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a hypervisor used to run operating systems in special environment, called virtual machines, on top of the existing operating system.

Installation Procedure

  • Make sure the host modules are installed for your distribution. Kernel headers may also be needed if your operating system does not come with one by default.
  • Install the virtualbox package. Use your distributions package manager.
    • For apt use $ sudo apt install virtualbox
    • For pacman user $ sudo pacman -Syu virtualbox

Using custom kernel

If using a custom kernel with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE enabled, the modules must be signed manually with a key generated during kernel compilation.

Navigate to your kernel tree folder and execute the following command:

# for module in `ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/misc/{vboxdrv.ko,vboxnetadp.ko,vboxnetflt.ko}` ; do ./scripts/sign-file sha1 certs/signing_key.pem certs/signing_key.x509 $module ; done

Manually load the VirtualBox kernel module

To load the modules manually, the command # modprobe vboxdrv should be run.

For more advanced configuration vboxnetadp and vboxnetflt can be used. These modules are need for bridged and hostonly networking feature.

Accessing the USB devices in guest

For accessing USB devices inside guest, the authorized users must be in the vboxusers groups.

More detailed instructions, common problem and their solutions can be found at the Arch Wiki for VirtualBox