Download VirtualBox for Linux Hosts

VirtualBox 3.0.2 for Linux

Note: The package architecture has to match the Linux kernel architecture, that is, if you are running a 64-bit kernel, install the appropriate AMD64 package (it does not matter if you have an Intel or an AMD CPU). Mixed installations (e.g. Debian/Lenny ships an AMD64 kernel with 32-bit packages) are not supported. To install VirtualBox anyway you need to setup a 64-bit chroot environment.

Please choose the appropriate package for your Linux distribution:

• Ubuntu 9.04 ("Jaunty Jackalope") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Ubuntu 8.10 ("Intrepid Ibex") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ("Hardy Heron") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Debian 5.0 ("Lenny") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Debian 4.0 ("Etch") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• openSUSE 11.1 ​i386 | ​AMD64
• openSUSE 11.0 ​i386 | ​AMD64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Fedora 11 ("Leonidas") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Fedora 9 ("Sulphur") / 10 ("Cambridge") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Fedora 8 ("Werewolf") ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Mandriva 2009.1 ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Mandriva 2008.0 ​i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") / CentOS 5 ​i386 | ​AMD64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ("RHEL4") ​i386
• Turbolinux 11 ​i386 | ​AMD64
• PCLinuxOS 2007 ​i386
• All distributions ​i386 | ​AMD64

• Debian-based Linux distributions: Add one of the following lines according to your distribution to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian gutsy non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian dapper non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian sarge non-free
  deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xandros4.0-xn non-free
  

  The Sun public key for apt-secure can be downloaded ​here. You can add this key with

  sudo apt-key add sun_vbox.asc
  

  or combine downloading and registering:

  wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
  

  The key fingerprint is

  AF45 1228 01DA D613 29EF  9570 DCF9 F87B 6DFB CBAE
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. (xVM VirtualBox archive signing key) <[email protected]>
  

  To install VirtualBox, do

  apt-get install virtualbox-3.0
  

  Replace virtualbox-3.0
  • by virtualbox to install VirtualBox 1.6.6
  • by virtualbox-2.0 to install VirtualBox 2.0.8
  • by virtualbox-2.1 to install VirtualBox 2.1.4
  • by virtualbox-2.2 to install VirtualBox 2.2.4

Note: Ubuntu users might want to install the dkms package (not available on Debian) to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade.

You might want to compare the ​MD5 sum to verify the integrity of downloaded packages.