

Allowing the GAs to fall behind the main VB version isn't bad for a while. If you change the GAs to a newer version with different capabilities, the host Virtualbox software won't know what the GAs are doing and problems will develop. As the developers update capabilities they put these capabilities in both the main Virtualbox and the GAs ISO. Software that has to work with partner software has to know what the partner is doing. You can now launch and use VirtualBox on Oracle Linux.It is not good to go downloading GAs besides the version that comes with the Virtualbox installer. sudo usermod -aG vboxusers kifarunix Launching VirtualBox on Oracle Linux You can add users to group as follows sudo usermod -aG vboxusers USERNAMEĮ.g, to add a user, kifarunix, to the group. VM users must be member of vboxusers group. Next, install VirtualBox on Oracle Linux sudo dnf install VirtualBox-6* Add VirtualBox users to VBOXUSERS group Gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle To use this method, install Oracle Linux Developer repositories sudo tee /etc//ol9-epel.repo << 'EOL'

If you like, you can install VirtualBox on Oracle Linux via YUM Repositories Install VirtualBox on Oracle Linux via YUM Repositories Qt5-qtbase-common noarch 5.15.2-29.el9 ol9_appstream 12 k Package Architecture Version Repository Size You can also get the download link and do the installation directly sudo dnf install =

Once the download is complete, run the installation. If not, then update the kernel headers sudo dnf update kernel-uek-* Install VirtualBox on Oracle Linux using RPM Binary Packageĭownload RPM binary package for your specific Oracle Linux release from VirtualBox downloads page. Confirm that the version numbers shown by these commands are similar uname -r 5.15.0-1.43.4.2.el9uek.x86_64 rpm -q kernel-uek-devel kernel-uek-devel- 5.15.0-1.43.4.2.el9uek.x86_64
