Install VirtualBox 5 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Step 1: Please setup EPEL repository for RHEL 7 / CentOS 7.

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Install header and development tools.

yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms 
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum update

Step 3: Download Oracle public key.

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc

Step 4: Import Oracle public key.

rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc

Step 5: Download VirtualBox repo file for CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 and move it into /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

 wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

OR

Create /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo file and use the following repo information.

[virtualbox]
name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc

Step 6: Install VirtualBox v5.2.

yum install VirtualBox-5.2

Step 7: Rebuild the kernel.

service vboxdrv setup

Step 7: Add your user name in to vboxuser group.

usermod -a -G vboxusers raj

Step 8: Start VirtualBox using following command.

virtualbox

Now you can start adding VM’s on VirtualBox.

Install VirtualBox 5 on CentOS 7

That’s All!. You have successfully installed VirtualBox on CentOS 7.