Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.14 is Released, Available for Ubuntu / Debian and Linux Mint
Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, innotek VirtualBox and Sun xVM VirtualBox) is a free and cross-platform virtualization application that provides a family of powerful x86 virtualization tools designed for desktop, server and embedded use. VirtualBox can be used on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms to run virtual machines of any of the aforementioned operating systems, as well as any BSD distribution, IMB OS/2 flavors, DOS, Netware, L4, QNX, and JRockitVE.
It's portable
Oracle VirtualBox is portable, requires no hardware virtualization, includes guest additions and great hardware support. It also features USB device support, full ACPI support, multiscreen resolutions, and built-in iSCSI support. Support for PXE network boot, multigeneration branched snapshots, remote machine display, extensible RDP authentication, and USB over RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is also integrated in Oracle VirtualBox.
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.0 Maintenance Release 14.
This release is a major improvement which include a large number of improvements and bug fixes; between the others we can find two important and very hot items:
- USB Fixes for MAC OS X - El Capitan
- Audio regression fixes.
How to Install Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.14 on Ubuntu Derivative System :
To Install/Update Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.14 on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:For Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf 32 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~wily_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~wily_i386.deb
For Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~wily_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~wily_amd64.deb
For Ubuntu 14.04 ("Trusty") / 14.10 ("Utopic") / 15.04 ("Vivid") 32 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb
For Ubuntu 14.04 ("Trusty") / 14.10 ("Utopic") / 15.04 ("Vivid") 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ("Precise") 32 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~precise_i386.debsudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~precise_i386.deb
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ("Precise") 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~precise_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~precise_i386.deb
In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:
sudo apt-get install -f
How to Install Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.14 on Debian Derivative System :
To install Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.14 on debian 8 jessie, debian 7 wheezy and debian 6 squezee, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~jessie_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~jessie_i386.deb
Debian 8 ("Jessie") 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb
Debian 7 ("Wheezy") 32 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb
Debian 7 ("Wheezy") 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
Debian 6 ("Squeeze") 32 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~squeeze_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~squeeze_i386.deb
Debian 6 ("Squeeze") 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb
In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:
sudo apt-get install -f
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