Install VirtualBox 4.3.14 in Fedora 20 64bit

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See “About VirtualBox” for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6 and 3.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

Download:

1. Fedora
2. VirtualBox

Steps to Install VirualBox in Fedora 20:

$ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.14/VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm
$ chmod +x VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm

Sample Output:

warning: VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.14_95030_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98ab5139: NOKEY

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules                      [  OK  ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]

If you got this error, install “libpng15” package to resolve this problem.

Error:

libpng15.so.15()(64bit) is needed by VirtualBox

Solution:

$ sudo yum install -y libpng15.x86_64