Installing Virtualbox on Ubuntu

Having a local virtual machine system is extremly beneficial to working effectively locally.
The following is a tutorial on getting Virtualbox installed and running locally on an Ubuntu workstation.
If you are using a different Operating System then Virtualbox provide documentation.

The following has been automated and is available as an Ansible role in Pajuna.

Overview

  • Download the Oracle public key for apt-secure
    • You should get a fingerprint the same as I do below but confirm this on the Virtualbox site
  • Install the Oracle public key for apt-secure
  • Install the Oracle public apt repo for Virtualbox
    • Create a new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/download_virtualbox_org_virtualbox_debian.list
  • Install the Oracle Virtualbox package
  • Install the package dkms to have the Virtualbox kernel module recompiled whenever the kernel is upgraded.

Instructions

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc
gpg --with-fingerprint oracle_vbox_2016.asc
  #  pub  4096R/2980AECF 2016-04-22 Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info@virtualbox.org>
  #	      Key fingerprint = B9F8 D658 297A F3EF C18D  5CDF A2F6 83C5 2980 AECF
  #  sub  4096R/920E471F 2016-04-22

sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox_2016.asc
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/download_virtualbox_org_virtualbox_debian.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
sudo apt-get install dkms



That’s it. You should now have a working Virtualbox 5.1 installed and ready for duty.


Next we get bosh-cli installed.

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