====== VirtualBox ====== There are a lot of reasons you might want to have the opportunity to run a completely separated OS "inside" your current running session. I personally mostly use this possibility when developing Web applications. This way you it becomes possible to adapt the target OS, packages and configurations to suit the particular application's needs. Sun (sadly now Oracle), has brought a wonderful open source tool to the community in the form of VirtualBox. This is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Fortunately they provide a repository for Debian installation, here's how to install VirtualBox on your Linux Mint Debian Edition machine. ===== Install From the Command Line ===== === Add the virtual box repo to your sources === To start, you'll need to add the virtualbox repository to your sources, please refer to the [[packages:manage#adding_a_repo_sitory_to_your_sources|"adding a repo to your sources"]] article on this wiki in case you don't know how to do it. Considering you are using the UP7 version of LMDE you should add the following repo: <code> > sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list PASTE: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib </code> As stated "wheezy" is for LMDE 1, if you're using LMDE 2 replace this with "jessie". === Download and install the Oracle key === <code> > wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - OK </code> We're now ready to install VirtualBox: <code> sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0 </code> Oracle VM Virtualbox is now available in your Menu under "Applications > System Tools". You might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade. (LMDE already includes this package) <code> sudo apt-get install dkms </code> ===== Creating Virtual Machines ===== http://www.turnkeylinux.org <wrap todo>TO BE COMPLETED</wrap> ===== Add Extensions Pack ===== ===== Get USB Access ===== <code> > sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME vboxusers, log out and log in again </code>