Virtualbox an open-source application for running operating systems virtually in our base system and this application available for multiple operating systems (ie) Windows, Linux, and MacOSX.
This tutorial will be helpful to install VirtualBox 6.1.6 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.04 / 19.10 and LinuxMint
Changelog in Virtualbox 6.1.6
- Support Linux kernel 5.6
- Fixed monitor resizing and multi-monitor handling bugs on X11 guests with VMSVGA graphics adapter
- Multiple enhancements improving performance and stability
- Multiple enhancements including visual elements updates
- Multiple fixes for guest control operations
- Multiple fixes including possible crash and HTML data support
- Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
- Fix for exception handling bug in Python bindings
- Improve error handling and fix hang when host port disappears
Install Virtualbox 6.1.6 in Ubuntu
Method 1: Via .deb package
.deb packages are available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10, you can directly download the deb package from the link based on your version
Method 2: Via repository
Step 1: Add the Repository
# sh -c “echo ‘deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian ‘$(lsb_release -cs)’ contrib non-free’ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list”
LinuxMint Users manually need to change the “(lsb_release-cs)” with bionic for 19.0X and xenial for 18.x series.
Step 2: Download the keys and install it
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add –
Step 3: Update the repository
sudo apt update
Step 4: Install Viratualbox 6.1
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1
Uninstall Virtualbox 6.1.6
To Uninstall virtualbox 6.1.6 run the below command and remove the virtualbox repositories from /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo apt remove –autoremove virtualbox-6.1
