官网权威参考:https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
较低内核版本可以参考这个先升级内核:http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6e0c0fdf010199f4.html
我用的内核是 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64
步骤 1 :
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ #wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo 取得oracle公钥: #wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | gpg --quiet --with-fingerprint Key fingerprint = 7B0F AB3A 13B9 0743 5925 D9C9 5442 2A4B 98AB 5139 步骤2: # yum install VirtualBox-4.2 有时候网络环境不好,需要多尝试几次,可以断点续做。 Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) [root@charis mwt]# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. 增加环境变量:KERN_DIR , VirtualBox kernel modules 重新编译需要内核源码;可能需要安装,安装如下: # yum install kernel-devel export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64/ 步骤3:启动 [root@charis mwt]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]