Install VirtualBox 6.0 / 5.2 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

 

Update the system to the latest version.

yum update

Reboot the system.

reboot

Once the system is up, install header and development tools.

yum install -y kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make perl

Also, install the wget package to download items using the terminal.

yum -y install wget

Download the Oracle public key.

wget https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc

Import Oracle public key.

rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc

Download the VirtualBox repository file for CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 and move it into /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

 wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

OR

Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo file with the following repository information.

[virtualbox]
name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc

Install VirtualBox using the yum command.

VirtualBox v6.0:

yum install -y VirtualBox-6.0

VirtualBox v5.2:

yum install -y VirtualBox-5.2

Run the below command to check the status of VirtualBox Linux kernel module service.

systemctl status vboxdrv