{"id":82,"date":"2013-04-26T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-07-04T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:41:18","slug":"how-to-install-virtualbox-on-fedora-in-10-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-install-virtualbox-on-fedora-in-10-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install VirtualBox on Fedora in 10 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 Open a terminal and change to the root user<\/p>\n<pre>su -<\/pre>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Then cd into the following directory<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/<\/pre>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Install wget.<\/p>\n<pre>yum install wget<\/pre>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Download the repo files with wget.<\/p>\n<pre>wget http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/rpm\/fedora\/virtualbox.repo<\/pre>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Install the dependencies.<\/p>\n<pre>yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms<\/pre>\n<p>6.\u00a0 Update your computer.<\/p>\n<pre>yum update<\/pre>\n<p>7.\u00a0 Install VirtualBox.<\/p>\n<pre>yum install VirtualBox-4.2<\/pre>\n<p>8. Add the VirtualBox user to the vboxusers group<\/p>\n<pre>usermod -a -G vboxusers user_name<\/pre>\n<p>9.\u00a0 Reboot your computer.<\/p>\n<pre>reboot<\/pre>\n<p>10.\u00a0 Enjoy.\u00a0 If you run into problems try the following.<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/init.d\/vboxdrv setup<\/pre>\n<p>Note:<br \/>\nI have created a script that will do all this for you, download <a title=\"Fedora VirtualBox Installer\" href=\"http:\/\/incredigeek.com\/home\/downloads\/fedora-vb-installer.sh\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 All you need to do is the following 3 commands.<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/pathto\/fedora-vb-installer.sh\r\nchmod +x fedora-vb-installer.sh\r\nsudo .\/fedora-vb-installer.sh<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 Open a terminal and change to the root user su &#8211; 2.\u00a0 Then cd into the following directory cd \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/ 3.\u00a0 Install wget. yum install wget 4.\u00a0 Download the repo files with wget. wget http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/rpm\/fedora\/virtualbox.repo 5.\u00a0 Install the dependencies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-install-virtualbox-on-fedora-in-10-steps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,39],"tags":[19,41,7,40,42],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora-2","category-linux","category-virtualization","tag-fedora","tag-install-virtualbox","tag-linux-2","tag-virtualbox","tag-virtualization-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}