Oracle VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. It installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems at the same time. Click here to read more about VirtualBox

Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1.14 maintenance release of VirtualBox 5.1 on January 17th, 2017. In this release VirtualBox has improves stability and fixes regressions. To read more about this release read changelog.

This article will help you to install Oracle VirtualBox 5.1 on CentOS, Redhat and Fedora systems using Yum.

Firstly you are required to add VirtualBox yum repository in your system. Download repository file from its official site and place it under at __ /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo __ .First navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and use one of below commands as per your operating system.

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# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

For CentOS/RHEL Systems:
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo

For Fedora Systems:
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

__ CentOS/RHEL __ Users also need to add EPEL yum repository using one of the following commands.

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CentOS/RHEL 7, 64 Bit (x86_64):
# rpm -Uvh http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-9.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6, 64 Bit (x86_64):
# rpm -Uvh http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2 – Install Required Packages

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# yum install gcc make patch  dkms qt libgomp
# yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel fontforge binutils glibc-headers glibc-devel

Step 3 – Setup Environment Variable

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# export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64

Step 4 – Install Oracle VirtualBox and Setup

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# yum install VirtualBox-5.1

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sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup

Step 5 – Start VirtualBox

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