Search virtualbox from Activity menu and click on its icon $ newgrp vboxusers 4) Launch VirtualBox GUI Once VirtualBox is installed, add your local user to vboxuser group so that it can perform all the operations on virtualbox, $ sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USER In case, you are interested to install virtualbox 6.1, then run $ sudo dnf install VirtualBox-6.1 -y Once all the dependencies are installed successfully then reboot the system once with beneath command, $ sudo reboot 3) Install VirtualBox 7 / 6īefore start installing the virtualbox, first verify what exact version of VirtualBox is available in the repository, run $ sudo dnf search virtualboxĪs we can see we have VirtualBox-7.0 and 6.1 available in repository, so to install virtualbox 7, run beneath command. Install following virtualbox dependencies with the help of beneath dnf command, $ sudo dnf install binutils kernel-devel kernel-headers libgomp make patch gcc glibc-headers glibc-devel dkms -y Run following to enable EPEL repository $ sudo dnf install -y 2) Install VirtualBox Dependencies Import VirtualBox public key, run $ sudo rpm -import Login to your RHELL 9 system and open the terminal and run following dnf command to enable official virtualbox package repository. Without any delay, let’s deep dive into VirtualBox Installation Steps on RHEL 9

Red Hat Subscription or locally configure Yum Repo.

Pre-Installed RHEL 9 with desktop environment.

Guest Additions: These are special software designed to install inside the VM to improve guest OS performance.VM (Virtual Machine): It is a virtual environment created by virtualbox for running the OS.

Guest OS: It is the operating system which is running inside the virtual machine.

Host OS: It is the operating of your physical system on which VirtualBox is installed.

It is generally used as desktop level and provides a graphical user interface for managing virtual machines. Using VirtualBox, we can run multiple operating systems simultaneously and help users to setup their test environment on their desktop or laptops. In this post, we will cover how to install VirtulaBox on RHEL 9 step-by-step.Īs we know that VirtualBox is a free cross-platform virtualization tool for x86 and Intel64/AMD64 hardware.

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