Install VirtualBox on CentOS 6

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Install VirtualBox on CentOS 6.0(64bit)

see also:

• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
• http://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-virtualbox-on-centos-redhat-and-fedora/
• https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html

Troubleshooting:

• RPMs aren't able to download from yum repository

  • http://d.hatena.ne.jp/C_6B4A2B/20130427/1367073209

• Kernel and kernel-headers version mismatch

  • http://l-w-i.net/t/centos/dkms_100.txt

Prerequisite

• Kernel source (nessesary match current kernel version on your server)
  • If not stored, see bellow to download it.
    • Download kernel source for CentOS 6

# Install dependency libs
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo sh -c "sed -i -e 's/^#baseurl/baseurl/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo && sed -i -e 's/^mirror/#mirror/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo"
sudo yum install gcc make patch  dkms qt libgomp
sudo yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel fontforge binutils glibc-headers glibc-devel

# Prepare to install virtualbox
wget https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc
sudo rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo
sudo chown root:root virtualbox.repo
sudo mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repo.d/

# Install latest virtualbox
sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.3 -y

# Build driver (Kernel source path is depended on your envrionment)
sudo sh -c "export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64/; service vboxdrv setup"