How To Install VirtualBox 5.0 In Ubuntu/Linux Mint Or Other Derivatives

12/7/2015

Most of us know what virtual machines are but for those don't know, virtual machines are the kind of software that allow users to run other operating system within current operating system. It's the favorite for everyone to taste other operating systems without going away from main operating system. In this article I'll show you how to installPicture VM VirtualBox 5.0 in Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/Linux mint Rafaela or other derivatives.

VirtualBox team recently released VirtualBox 5.0 with several interesting features for developers and normal users both. Let's take a brief look at the new features.

What's New In VirtualBox 5.0?

"A key tool for developers and users creating cloud and local applications without the overhead of using a full server environment, Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers. It allows users to set up multi-platform virtual machine environments for software development, testing, and general purpose operating system (OS) virtualization, with optional runtime encryption," notes Oracle in the official announcement.

According to the changelog, the guest OS performance has been improved by leveraging built-in virtualization support, a broader set of CPU instructions is now used for the guest OS, support for USB 3.0 devices has been added, “drag and drop” of content between the host and the guest is now supported, and data can be encrypted on virtual hard disk images transparently during runtime (with AES algorithm).

Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see the manual for more information)
Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED
xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information)
Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information)
VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM.
GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends
Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later)
...and much more (full release notes)

How To Install VirtuaBox 5.0 In Ubuntu 15.04/14.10.14.04 Or Linux Mint 17.2 Or Other Derivatives

Visit VirtualBox official website and click the button Download VirtualBox 5.0.

After you've downloaded the file, move to the folder where the downloaded file exists and open the .deb file with Software Center and click install and your file will be installed. But sometimes in failure of installation software center does not specify the reason of failure. So it is better to install through either gdebi or from terminal.

To install from terminal, open up terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and move to the folder where VirtualBox file contained.

$ cd directory-path

Use dpkg command to install file -

$ sudo dpkg -i filename.deb

Now you're done! You've install VirualBox 5.0 successfully. In case the installation fails, terminal will specify the reason then you can easily solve the issue.