Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Virtualbox is a popular virtualization software, working on both Linux and Windows. Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.2.16 a while ago (which is the last version available). A full list of bugfixes and improvements is available in the changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Virtualbox 4.2.16 on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17 and CentOS 6.*, via PPA.
Because it has been added to the Virtualbox PPA, installing Virtualbox on Fedora and CentOS is easy:
Add the Virtualbox repository, for Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
Add the Virtualbox repository, for CentOS 6:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
Update the local repository index and install the dependencies:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install kernel-headers binutils qt make patch libgomp glibc-headers gcc kernel-devel glibc-devel dkms
Install Virtualbox 4.2.16:
$ sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.2
Do some more tweakings:
$ sudo service vboxdrv setup
To start the app, just type Virtualbox in the terminal.