I can be able to install CentOS 8 and other guest OSes. Great! Virtualbox extension pack is installed. 0: Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack Version: 6.1.2ĭescription: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM, Disk Encryption, NVMe. I downloaded the virtualbox extensions for version 6.1 from here and installed it using commands: $ wget $ sudo vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.2.vbox-extpackĬheck if the extension pack has been installed or not using command: $ vboxmanage list extpacks It asked me to install Virtualbox extension pack for Virtualbox 6.1 version.

All VMs which are created with Virtualbox 5.2 didn't start under virtualbox 6.1. 5.2 in my case) will be automatically removed. While installing virtualbox 6.1 version, the old version (i.e. Next, add virtualbox GPG key: $ wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -įinally, install Virtualbox 6.1 using command: $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.1 If you're using other Debian or Ubuntu version, replace bionic with your distribution's codename, for example ' eoan', ' xenial', ' buster', ' stretch', ' jessie' etc. To do so, edit /etc/apt/sources.list file: $ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.listĪdd the following line: deb bionic contrib So I installed VirtualBox 6.1.2 version in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS like below.įirst, add virtualbox official repository. The default repositories still has virtualbox 5.2 version.

Install Oracle Virtualbox 6.1 on Ubuntu 18.04Įven though Virtualbox 6.1 has been released two weeks ago, it is not yet included in the official repositories of Ubuntu 18.04. After searching through CentOS forums, I came to know that someone had the same problem and he/she fixed it by upgrading to the latest Virtualbox version, which is 6.1. I deleted the CentOS 8 VM, recreated it with higher memory and disk space and tried to install it again, but the installation ended as usual with corrupted graphics.

All I can do is either reset or forcibly shutdown the CentOS 8 guest.

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