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VirtualBox on OpenSUSE 13.1 & 13.2

VirtualBox is the virtualization software used at desktop level in linux like operating system .It allows us to install and run multiple Virtual Machines ( VM) at the same time. In this article we will install VirtualBox-4.3 on OpenSUSE 13.1 / 13.2.

Step:1 Enable VirtualBox Repository
Open the terminal and enable the virtualbox repository because its packages are not available in the default opensuse repository
linux-hackthesec:~ # cd /etc/zypp/repos.d/
linux-hackthesec:/etc/zypp/repos.d # wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/12.3/virtualbox.repo
Step:2 Refresh the repository using below Command
linux-hackthesec:~ # zypper refresh
Before starting installation , please make sure following packages are install , if not then use the below command :
linux-hackthesec:~ # zypper install gcc make automake autoconf kernel-source kernel-syms
Step:3 Install Virtualbox-4.3 using below zypper command
linux-hackthesec:~ # zypper install VirtualBox-4.3
Apart from the Zypper Command We can also install Virtualbox package using Yast2 , example is shown below :
linux-hackthesec:~ # yast2
Select VirtualBox-4.3 and mark for installation.
Click on Apply
Step:4 Now Access the VirtualBox

Click on the Virtualbox Icon.

Troubleshooting : In my case when i started Virtualbox, i was getting below error message :

To resolve this problem i have upgraded my Current Kernel version and then execute below command :
linux-hackthesec:~ # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules          done
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules       done
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules          done
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