How To Install VirtualBox on Fedora 9

VirtualBox has been recently bought by Sun Inc, the maker of Sun's Java. VirtualBox had proven to do their job when it comes to operating system virtualization. Virtualization using Virtualbox had come to a long way, which enabled every virtual users and system admins to further evaluate different virtual machines to perform its task without even buying any additional hardware.

What is VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is a powerful PC virtualization solution allowing you to run a wide range of PC operating systems on your Linux system. This includes Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OpenBSD and others. VirtualBox comes with a broad feature set and excellent performance, making it the premier virtualization software solution on the market.

VirtualBox Installation

Here's how to install VirtualBox to Fedora 9.

Step One

Download VirtualBox binary from Sun site. Choose your proper operating system. To install it into Fedora, Download it here. The download package is about 21MB in size.

Alternatively, you can use yum to install Virtualbox as shown below

# yum -y install VirtualBox

After doing installation via yum, proceed to step three.

Step Two

Install Virtualbox rpm package using rpm package manager

# rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.6.2_31466_fedora9-1.i586.rpm

Step Three

Execute VirtualBox binary and respond the next installation procedures as shown below

# VirtualBox

Accept VirtualBox license and you are good to go.

All is done.

More VirtualBox info can be found here.