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How to install VirtualBox on Fedora?

Julien
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Warning

Fedora recommended version is 30 or higher. We can not guarantee Genymotion operations or support with previous versions.

The easiest is way is to install VirtualBox with RPM fusion repository:

  1. Configure RPMfusion repository (as seen on http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/): 
    sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
  2. Install VirtualBox (as seen on http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/VirtualBox): 
    sudo dnf install VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r) akmod-VirtualBox
    sudo akmods
    sudo systemctl restart systemd-modules-load.service
  3. To verify whether VirtualBox is properly installed, command dmesg | grep -i vbox should return the following: 
    vboxdrv: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing – tainting kernel
    vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores
    vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x1c2 offMax=0xa5f
    vboxdrv: TSC mode is Synchronous, tentative frequency 3000795689 Hz
    vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 5.0.6_ (interface 0x00240000)
    VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
    VBoxNetAdp: Successfully started.

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