To Install extension pack, let’s first download its file using beneath wget command. VirtualBox Extension pack provides additional functionality to virtualbox like support for USB 2.0 & USB 3.0, PXE boot for Intel Cards, disk encryption and VirtualBox RDP. Before start creating virtual machines inside the virtualbox, let’s first install extension pack in the next step. To start virtualbox GUI, type virtualbox from Activity as shown below,Ĭlick on VirtualBox icon, we will get following window.Ībove window confirms that VirtualBox has been started successfully. If you want your local user to use virtualbox with admin privileges then add your local user to vboxusers secondary group. $ sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0 -y 4) Add Local User to VBoxusers Group $ sudo apt install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms Run the following apt command to install virtualbox 7 and its dependencies. Now, run following echo and tee command to add repository, $ echo 'deb $(lsb_release -sc) contrib' | sudo tee /etc/apt//virtualbox.list 3) Install VirtualBox 7 on Ubuntu 22.04 $ curl -fsSL |sudo gpg -dearmor -o /etc/apt//oracle_vbox.gpg $ curl -fsSL |sudo gpg -dearmor -o /etc/apt//vbox.gpg So, let’s first import virtualbox package repositories keys, run following commands, $ sudo apt install curl wget gnupg2 lsb-release -y

VirtualBox 7 is not available in the default package repositories of Ubuntu 22.04. To make the system package cache up to date, run $ sudo apt update 2) Add VirtualBox 7 Repository Without any further delay, let’s deep dive into VirtualBox installation steps. Multi Core Processor ( 4 Core CPUs or more).In other words, we can say that we run guest OS in a VM. Virtual machine ( VM) – This is the special environment that VirtualBox creates for our Guest OS while it is running.Guest operating system ( Guest OS) – It is an operating system which is running inside the virtual machine.Host OS for virtual box can be Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X. Host Operating System ( Host OS) – It is an operating system of the physical machine on which VirtualBox is installed or will be installed.

Instal the new VirtualBox 7.0.10