We can use dashboard shortcuts to start VirtualBox or simply run following command from a terminal. If you have already installed an older version of VirtualBox, Below command will update it automatically. Step 3 – Install Oracle VirtualBoxĪfter completing the above steps, let’s install VirtualBox using the following commands. This command will add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list at end of the file. sudo add-apt-repository "deb xenial contrib" You can do this by running the below command on your system. Now, you need to add Oracle VirtualBox PPA to Ubuntu system. Let’s import the Oracle public key to your system signed the Debian packages using the following commands. After login to your system update current packages of the system to the latest version. You must have logged in to your server using root or sudo privileged user. This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems. Oracle team also added an experimental feature for audio support for video recording.
This version has the new feature to export VM to Oracle Cloud, Unattended guest installation, improved tools handling with more attractive icons.
Oracle VirtualBox 5.2 is the latest major release after launched by Oracle team. Oracle VirtualBox 5.2.8 has been released on February 27th, 2018.