{"id":8445,"date":"2021-03-26T21:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:23:21","slug":"install-virtualbox-on-ubuntu-21-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/install-virtualbox-on-ubuntu-21-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 21.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ubuntu 21.04 code named, Hirsute Hippo<\/code><\/strong> is available for testing as of this writing with the official release date is set to be April 22, 2021. If you want to try it before the release date, you can grab a daily build image and install it. In this tutorial, you will learn VirtualBox on Ubuntu 21.04 Desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 21.04<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As stated, unstable daily builds for Ubuntu 21.04 is available for testing. if you are already running Ubuntu 21.04 and you want to test and play around with how it handles virtualization, then this guide will take you through how to install VirtualBox to enable you build your virtual testing labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run system Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Update your system package cache by running the command below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

apt update<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Install VirtualBox<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, Ubuntu 21.04 repositories provides the current latest release version of VirtualBox<\/a> (v 6.1.18), as of this writing, in its default multiverse repositories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
apt-cache policy virtualbox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
virtualbox:\n  Installed: (none)\n  Candidate: 6.1.18-dfsg-3ubuntu1\n  Version table:\n     6.1.18-dfsg-3ubuntu1 500\n        500 http:\/\/ke.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu hirsute\/multiverse amd64 Packages<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Awesome, this makes the installation and as easy as running the command below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
apt install virtualbox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Running VirtualBox on Ubuntu 21.04<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Once you have successfully ran the command to install VirtualBox above, VirtualBox should now be available for launching in your application menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Install<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
And when you launch it;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You can now start building your virtual labs using VirtualBox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uninstalling VirtualBox on Ubuntu 21.04<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
If for some reasons you want to uninstall VirtualBox, then you can run the command below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
apt remove --purge --auto-remove virtualbox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Other Tutorials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu 21.04<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Install Ubuntu 21.04 Desktop on VirtualBox<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Start and Stop KVM Virtual Machines from Command Line<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ubuntu 21.04 code named, Hirsute Hippo is available for testing as of this writing with the official release date is set to be April 22,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,121,46],"tags":[3336,3328,3337,3338,1233,3327],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-virtualization","category-howtos","category-virtualbox","tag-install-virtualbox-on-ubuntu-21-04","tag-ubuntu-21-04","tag-ubuntu-21-04-install-virtualbox","tag-ubuntu-21-04-virtualbox","tag-virtualbox-6-1","tag-virtualbox-ubuntu-21-04","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21879,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/21879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}