You will be asked to accept the VirtualBox License Agreement. Select the VirtualBox Extension Pack file you have just downloaded and click on Open. Now, open VirtualBox and click on File > Preferences…įrom the Extensions tab, click on the Add icon ( VirtualBox Extension Pack should be downloaded. Your browser will prompt you to download the file. Once the page loads, scroll down a little bit to the VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack section and click on All supported platforms as marked in the screenshot below. To download the latest version of the VirtualBox Extension Pack, visit the official downloads page of VirtualBox from your favorite web browser. You can just download the latest one from the official downloads page of VirtualBox. You don’t have to search so hard to find a matching version of the VirtualBox Extension Pack. So, you will most likely get the latest version of VirtualBox. Luckily, Arch Linux keeps its official package repository up to date.
This is important as you will have to download and install a matching version of the VirtualBox Extension Pack. In my case, the version number is 6.1.32. A new window should be opened, and you will find the version number there as marked in the screenshot below. To know the version number, open VirtualBox and click on Help > About. VirtualBox RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) server for accessing VMs over RDP.īefore getting started, you must know the version of VirtualBox you’re running.VirtualBox Extension Pack adds the following new functionalities to VirtualBox: VirtualBox Extension Pack adds many new features to VirtualBox. Now that VirtualBox is installed correctly, you should install VirtualBox Extension Pack. Just search for virtualbox and click on the Oracle VM VirtualBox icon as marked in the screenshot below. Once VirtualBox is installed, you can run it from the Application Menu of Arch Linux. Once you have enabled hardware virtualization from the BIOS of your computer, run the following command to verify whether Intel VT-x/VT-d or AMD AMD-v/SVM extension is enabled.
If you’re using an AMD processor, you will have to enable the AMD-v/SVM extension. If you’re using an Intel processor, you will have to enable the VT-x/VT-d extension. Adding Your Login User to the vboxusers Groupīefore you get started, you must enable the hardware virtualization extension from the BIOS of your motherboard.Loading VirtualBox Kernel Module Automatically on Boot.Update the Pacman Package Repository Cache.
This article will show you how to install VirtualBox on Arch Linux. You can use VirtualBox to create virtual machines of Linux, BSD, Windows, OSX, and many other types of operating systems on your computer. VirtualBox is a very popular free virtualization platform from Oracle.
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