Need to install Virtual Box 2 ?

[Ebadaah]

hello friends,

I have Sun xVM VirtualBox 2. I want to ask how can I install my virtual box 2 on a Debian Lenny Desktop ?

Does anybody knows how to do it ? ..... please provide the information about this

thanks..

[Devasis]

VirtualBox is available as a package from the official Debian Lenny repository, but it's very old (version 1.6.6), therefore I explain how to install the current version (2.1.4 at the time of this writing).

With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.

There are two ways of installing VirtualBox:

• from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and
• from the sources that are released under the GPL.

[SalVatore]

Installing VirtualBox From Precompiled Binaries

First, we install the packages gdeb, gedbi, and gdebi-core.
Open the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager)

You can use the search function to find the three packages.
Select them for installation and click on Apply.
Close Synaptic after the packages have been installed

Open Firefox and go to the website of virtualbox and find Linux Downloads from there. For Debian Lenny,
click on the i386 or AMD64 link (depending on if you have a 32 or 64 bit host operating system) right of Debian 5.0 ("Lenny")

Download the package to your desktop
After the download has finished, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and
type "su" (without inverted commas) to become root.

Then run gdebi /home/falko/Desktop virtualbox-2.1_2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny_i386.deb to install VirtualBox (make sure you use the correct path; also the package name can differ, for example if you have downloaded the amd64 version or if there is a newer version - use the TAB key to use autocompletion in the terminal).

[SalVatore]

During the installation you will see the following message. It says that the user that runs VirtualBox - that's the user you're logged in as on your desktop - must be a member of the vboxusers group

To add the user falko to the vboxusers group, we run usermod -G vboxusers -a falko in the terminal,
delete the VirtualBox package
rm -f /home/falko/Desktop/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny_i386.deb
and close the terminal afterwards.

1. To start VirtualBox, go to Applications > System Tools > Sun xVM VirtualBox (if you don't see the VirtualBox launcher, log out of the desktop and back in again)
2. When you start VirtualBox for the first time, you are prompted to accept its license
3. Afterwards, type in your name and email address to register your VirtualBox installation
4. Click on OK in the registration confirmation window

You can now use VirtualBox to create virtual machines