Fast and obfuscated

The following command lines summaries this article. At first, initialize your sudo environment :

sudo echo

Then copy/paste those commands in your terminal :

sudo sh -c 'echo "# VirtualBox repository for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian feisty non-free" \
     > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty-virtualbox.list'
wget http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install virtualbox

Installation

First, add the VirtualBox repository to your apt configuration :

sudo sh -c 'echo "# VirtualBox repository for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian feisty non-free" \
     > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty-virtualbox.list'

Then, install the GPG key validating this repository :

wget http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Now, update the list of available packages :

sudo apt-get update

You can now install VirtualBox :

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

You will find a shortcut to VirtualBox in menu System tools.

USB support

Warning: only use this part of this article if you know what you're doing and if you encounter USB problems with VirtualBox.

The main source for USB problems is that usbfs file system is not configured in a default Ubuntu Feisty setup. In order to configure it, we create the associated group:

sudo addgroup --system usbfs

and we add our user to this group :

sudo adduser $USER usbfs

Then, we add the usbfs configuration to our fstab file :

cat /etc/group | grep usbfs | sed -e 's/.*:.*:\([0-9]*\):.*/\1/' | \
    xargs -iUSBFS_ID echo none  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  devgid=USBFS_ID,devmode=664  0  0 | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Now, you need to restart your computer to apply this modifications.

Thanks

• Thanks to InnoTek for freeing VirtualBox.
• Thanks to Racoon97 for his article Un dépôt Ubuntu pour VirtualBox.
• Thanks to LLaumgui for his article VirtualBox et l'USB.