Installing Latest VirtualBox (7.0)
Remove Current Installation
Remove the current virtualbox (6.x) packages when installed at all.
Solution with a Sources-file
Add a source-list file virtualbox.sources to the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.
cat <<EOD | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.sources >/dev/null
Types: deb
Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture)
Suites: stable
URIs: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian
Suites: $(lsb_release -cs)
Components: contrib
Signed-By:
$(wget -qO- https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sed 's/^/ /')
EOD
Install using List-file
Add Repository Keys
Since apt-key add using the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg file is deprecated use the following method using /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory.
wget -q -O - "https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc" | gpg --yes --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/oracle_vbox_2016.gpg
wget -q -O - "https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc" | gpg --yes --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/oracle_vbox.gpg
Check if the keys were added using apt-key list | grep oracle_vbox and 2 must occur.
Add Source List
apt-add-repository --yes "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib"
To remove the apt-repository just add the option --remove.
Install the Package
Update and install the virtualbox packages.
apt update # Not actually needed since apt-add-repository does it by default.
apt install virtualbox-7.0 virtualbox-ext-pack
When using Ubuntu 22.04
When package
linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04is installed the header files are missing for the current kernel and result in an errorNS_ERROR_FAILURE 0X80004005. To fix this run the next command:
Install the Guest Additions ISO
Add User to the Group
To be able to use VirtualBox without a warning message about not able to list USB devices add the user
to the vboxusers group.