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Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
- Loci.Cantos
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Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
There are some poorly considered procedures floating around the cloud for installing VirtualBox 6 on Buster. This link will take you to an excellent procedure for that process. It's clean and quick, and it worked perfectly. Good luck. Thank you to Josphat Mutai for making this available.
https://computingforgeeks.com/install-v ... tu-debian/
https://computingforgeeks.com/install-v ... tu-debian/
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Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
I don't think adding Oracle's repositories is a good idea. I also don't think using VirtualBox is a good idea, it was removed from Debian stable because it isn't of sufficient quality.
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Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
Thanks for the head-up, I didn't know this HoaS.
Does it cause problems for itself only (internally inconsistent), or does it cause problems across the system as well, affecting system operation and/or other applications?
Is there some alternative hypervisor? I've stayed mostly with vb over the years but I'm happy to look at others. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you.
lc
Does it cause problems for itself only (internally inconsistent), or does it cause problems across the system as well, affecting system operation and/or other applications?
Is there some alternative hypervisor? I've stayed mostly with vb over the years but I'm happy to look at others. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you.
lc
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Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
Potentially both, the developers have a tendency to ignore security issues so it seems likely their packaging skills may be lacking.Loci.Cantos wrote:Does it cause problems for itself only (internally inconsistent), or does it cause problems across the system as well, affecting system operation and/or other applications?
KVM is native to Linux and is supported by QEMU. Or use gnome-boxes.Loci.Cantos wrote:Is there some alternative hypervisor?
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Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
Well, you can get 6.0.10 from my OBS repo https://build.opensuse.org/project/show ... box-buster
I'll update it to 6.0.14 tomorrow, the same as is backported already for MX 19 and 17/18.
I'll update it to 6.0.14 tomorrow, the same as is backported already for MX 19 and 17/18.
MX Linux packager and developer
Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
That's good; it took a long time to build but I successfully backported 6.0.14 from sid to Buster:stevepusser wrote:Well, you can get 6.0.10 from my OBS repo https://build.opensuse.org/project/show ... box-buster
I'll update it to 6.0.14 tomorrow, the same as is backported already for MX 19 and 17/18.
I noticed when starting it via the terminal I got this:
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user@debian:~$ virtualbox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
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# dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
# dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox
# modprobe vboxdrv
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DebianStable
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$ vrms
No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian! rms would be proud.
Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
For anyone interested, this is how I backported VirtualBox 6.0.14 from sid to buster:
This simple method doesn't always work so, in general, I recommend stevepusser's repository because it's much quicker.
As always, to build a quick personal backport from unstable "sid" for one's own architecture, first edit or add the source to your /etc/apt/sources.list file with a command like (modify for your mirror):
Now as your user (not root);
ls command will show the resulting backported packages:
The debs can be installed (from within the BUILD directory) with
However, I needed to redifine the path variable (don't copy the initial $):
Followed by the commands I gave above:
After that, to get rid of the build dependencies there are various ways to do this; see for example this how-to-uninstall-all-packages-installed-by-aptitude-build-dep which are OK even though apt was used in this example.
This simple method doesn't always work so, in general, I recommend stevepusser's repository because it's much quicker.
As always, to build a quick personal backport from unstable "sid" for one's own architecture, first edit or add the source to your /etc/apt/sources.list file with a command like (modify for your mirror):
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# echo "deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update
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$ mkdir BUILD && cd BUILD
user@debian:~/BUILD$ apt-get -b virtualbox
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user@debian:~/BUILD$ ls
virtualbox-6.0.14-dfsg
virtualbox_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.buildinfo
virtualbox_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.changes
virtualbox_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox_6.0.14-dfsg-2.debian.tar.xz
virtualbox_6.0.14-dfsg-2.dsc
virtualbox_6.0.14-dfsg.orig.tar.xz
virtualbox-dbgsym_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-dkms_6.0.14-dfsg-2_all.deb
virtualbox-guest-dkms_6.0.14-dfsg-2_all.deb
virtualbox-guest-source_6.0.14-dfsg-2_all.deb
virtualbox-guest-utils_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-guest-utils-dbgsym_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-guest-x11_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-guest-x11-dbgsym_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-qt_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-qt-dbgsym_6.0.14-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
virtualbox-source_6.0.14-dfsg-2_all.deb
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$ su -c "dpkg -i ./*.deb"
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$ PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin su -c "dpkg -i ./*.deb"
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# dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
# dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox
# modprobe vboxdrv
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$ vrms
No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian! rms would be proud.
- Loci.Cantos
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Re: Excellent: Install VirtualBox 6 on Debian 10
Nice. Lots of good information here.
Thanks Head_on_a_Stick. Thanks Steve Pusser. Thanks Kedaha.
Thanks Head_on_a_Stick. Thanks Steve Pusser. Thanks Kedaha.