VirtualBox
The pbase-preconfig-virtualbox
package install the dependencies and adds the
KERN_DIR and KERN_VER environment variables required to run VirtualBox and build the guest extensions.
First, place your username in a text file in the /root directory with this echo
command below.
echo "mydesktopusername" > /root/DEFAULT_DESKTOP_USERNAME.txt
yum -y install https://pbase-foundation.com/pbase-repo.rpmyum -y install pbase-preconfig-virtualbox
Reboot after doing this to load in the new environment variables.
Setup VirtualBox Guest
After rebooting verify correct $KERN_DIR after install with these commands to check the $KERN_DIR in the .bashrc'
ls -l $KERN_DIRecho $KERN_VER
1: Reboot your guest VM to activate the VirtualBox environment variables
2: Select the 'Insert the VirtualBox Guest Additions CD Image' menu item
3: Click the 'Run' dialog button when prompted to rebuild the guest kernel
4: Reboot your guest VM to see the Guest Additions running
Setup VirtualBox Host
yum -y install VirtualBox-7.0/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setupusermod -a -G vboxusers yourdesktopusername
Then, logged in as your regular desktop user launch virtualbox with:
VirtualBox
More about VirtualBox
Read more about the VirtualBox project at:
https://www.virtualbox.org/