HowTo: Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu server 14.04
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:36 pm
I want to install VirtualBox on a headless Ubuntu server (14.04. 3 64bits) host.
I've never done that before in that way, so I'll take notes here.
First of all:
Seems, whatever I'm doing, Falko Timme did it first - and wrote a HowTo about it!
They're usually very excellent. So here's another one:
VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.3 On A Headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server
It seems that VirtualBox can be installed from Ubuntu's default repositories (instead of requiring to add the ones from Oracle):
According to Information on the VirtualBox website:
I've never done that before in that way, so I'll take notes here.
First of all:
Seems, whatever I'm doing, Falko Timme did it first - and wrote a HowTo about it!
They're usually very excellent. So here's another one:
VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.3 On A Headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server
It seems that VirtualBox can be installed from Ubuntu's default repositories (instead of requiring to add the ones from Oracle):
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$ apt-get install virtualboxBefore version 4.0, there were two editions of VirtualBox: a full binary containing all features and an "Open Source Edition" (OSE) with source code. With version 4.0, there is only one version any more, which is open source, and the closed-source components have been moved to a separate extension pack.