Install Latest VirtualBox in Fedora 19/18/17/16/CentOS/Redhat

Virtual-box is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is Virtual-box an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2

Presently, Virtual-box runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and Open-Solaris  OS/2, and OpenBSD. Latest Virtual-box change-log.

To install virtual-box in any Fedora open terminal and enter following commands:

• sudo su
• cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
• wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
• yum update
• yum install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

To install virtual-box in RHEL/CentOS 6.4 to 5.9 open terminal and enter following commands:

• sudo su
• cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
• wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
• yum update
• yum install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

To install virtual-box in RHEL/CentOS 5 and previous open terminal and enter following commands:

• sudo su
• wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
• rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
• yum update
• yum install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

Rebuild Kernel Modules for VirtualBox

• /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
or
• service vboxdrv setup

Here you can find Extensions for VirtualBox (like: Usb 2.0, etc).
For other Distro's download from here.
 

Source : Techlw