Today I am going to walk you through how to install CentOS in VirtualBox so you can create your own virtual machine of this great operating system as opposed to having to run it on a standalone Linux laptop. That’s why today things are going to change. The extension pack provides VirtualBox's virtual machine extra features, such as USB 2.0 and 3.0 support, RDP, shared clipboard, and several interesting features.It occurred to me the other day that despite the fact that I talk up CentOS as a great Linux distribution multiple times on this blog, I’ve never really ever bothered to show people how to install it. Select Open with Oracle VM VirtualBox and click OK.Ĭonfirm that you want to install the extension pack. Go to the following URL and click the All supported platforms link under the section ' … Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack'. gpasswd -a user_name vboxusers Downloading and installing the Extension Pack We will install it by running the following command: dnf -y install VirtualBox-6.1.x86_64Īfter installing VirtualBox, add your user account(or any other user who wants to run VirtualBox) to the vboxusers group. In my case, I have VirtualBox-6.1 as the latest version. We can do this by using one single command as follows: wget -P /etc/ Įnter the dnf repolist command, and you should see the VirtualBox repository in the list.Īfter adding the repository, run the dnf search command to get the list of VirtualBox versions available for CentOS 8. Name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox Then we need to add the following block to the repo file.

To set up the dnf repository, we need to create a file called virtualbox.repo in the /etc/ directory.

We also need to install the VirtualBox Extension Pack, which provides some extra functionality for our virtual machine environment. We can install VirtualBox on CentOS Linux 8 using the dnf install command after setting up the VirtualBox repository. In the following tutorial, we will install VirtualBox on CentOS 8 / CentOS Stream. How to Install VirtualBox on CentOS 8 Linux

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