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Installing VirtualBox 2 on a Linux Host

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Installing VirtualBox on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
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An alternaive to installing VirtualBox using the graphical Software Installer tool is to install perform the installation from the command line. This can be achieved as follows:
 
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# su -
# rpm -ihv VirtualBox-2.1.4_42893_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
 
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:VirtualBox ########################################### [100%]
 
Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!
 
No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.
 
Success!
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As part of the installation process, a new group named ''vboxusers'' will be created on the host system. Any users which are intended to use VirtualBox must first be added to this group. This can be achieved by executing the following command:
 
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# /usr/sbin/usermod -G vboxusers -a <username>
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where ''<username>'' represents the name of the user to be added to the ''vboxusers'' group.
== Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu ==
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