Now, you can start using VirtualBox 6.0 to create and run virtual machines of your favorite operating systems. VirtualBox Extension Pack should be installed. Type in the password for your login user and click on Authenticate. You need super user privileges in order to install VirtualBox Extension Pack. To do that, scroll down and click on I Agree. Now, you have to accept the VirtualBox License. Now, select the VirtualBox Extension Pack file you just downloaded and click on Open. Once the download is complete, start VirtualBox 6.0 and go to File > Preferences…įrom the Extensions tab, click on the add icon as marked in the screenshot below.Ī file picker should be opened. Your browser should prompt you to save the file.
If it’s different for you, then replace 6.0.0 in the URL with the version you have. NOTE: Here, 6.0.0 is the version of the VirtualBox you installed. Once the page loads, click on the “Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack- 6.0.0.vbox-extpack” file as marked in the screenshot below. First, to visit the official FTP directory of VirtualBox at 6.0.0
You have to download VirtualBox extension pack from the official website of VirtualBox and install it yourself in order to use these extra features in VirtualBox. It is a must have tool for any VirtualBox user. VirtualBox Extension Pack enables support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for intel cards and many more. Note the VirtualBox version because you will need it when you will install VirtualBox Extension Pack. Now, you should be able to run VirtualBox 6.0 from the Application Menu as you can see in the screenshot below.Īs you can see, I am currently running VirtualBox 6.0.0.
The required packages are being downloaded. To add the official package repository of VirtualBox, run the following command: But we can easily add the package repository of VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and install VirtualBox 6.0 from there. VirtualBox 6.0 is not available in the official package repository of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Without hardware virtualization enabled, your virtual machines will perform very badly. If you’re using a AMD processor, then you have to enable AMD-v from the BIOS of your computer. If you’re using an Intel processor, then you have to enable VT-x or VT-d from the BIOS of your computer. Enable Hardware Virtualization:īefore you install VirtualBox 6.0, make sure hardware virtualization is enabled. This article mainly focuses on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but this article will also work for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and later. In this article, I will show you how to install VirtualBox 6.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Recently, VirtualBox 6.0, a major update of VirtualBox came out. VirtualBox can virtualize Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and many other versions of Linux, Solaris, some BSD variants etc. VirtualBox is a free virtualization solution from Oracle.
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