It is a must have tool for any VirtualBox user. VirtualBox Extension Pack enables support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for intel cards and many more. Note the VirtualBox version because you will need it when you will install VirtualBox Extension Pack.
Now, you should be able to run VirtualBox 6.0 from the Application Menu as you can see in the screenshot below.Īs you can see, I am currently running VirtualBox 6.0.0. The required packages are being downloaded. To add the official package repository of VirtualBox, run the following command:
But we can easily add the package repository of VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and install VirtualBox 6.0 from there. VirtualBox 6.0 is not available in the official package repository of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Without hardware virtualization enabled, your virtual machines will perform very badly.
If you’re using a AMD processor, then you have to enable AMD-v from the BIOS of your computer. If you’re using an Intel processor, then you have to enable VT-x or VT-d from the BIOS of your computer. Enable Hardware Virtualization:īefore you install VirtualBox 6.0, make sure hardware virtualization is enabled. This article mainly focuses on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but this article will also work for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and later. In this article, I will show you how to install VirtualBox 6.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Recently, VirtualBox 6.0, a major update of VirtualBox came out. VirtualBox can virtualize Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and many other versions of Linux, Solaris, some BSD variants etc. wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -Īfter importing the repository key above, run the commands below to add VirtualBox package repository file on Ubuntu Linux.VirtualBox is a free virtualization solution from Oracle. Run the commands below to import and add Oracle public keys repository key to your system. If you want to always get the latest versions of VirtualBox when they become available, you’ll want to add its software repository to Ubuntu. How to add VirtualBox repository to Ubuntu To install or Upgrade to VirtualBox latest software on Ubuntu, add its repository to Ubuntu so that you can always get the latest version when available. However, the packages in there might not be the latest versions. VirtualBox software packages are available in Ubuntu multiverse repository. Applications running one in one OS may not run efficiently on other operating systems, and VirtualBox can be very helpful in this situation to make sure an application is tested to run anywhere on any operating system.įor more about VirtualBox, check its homepage.
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