Virtual box Installation.

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I’ve used Yast to search for Virtual Box but it didn’t return a result. How do I go about installing it. I found an old thread but the link was broken.

Is Virtual Box the best hypervisor to use with openSuse or is there a generally accepted better application I should consider?:\

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Hi
Sure kvm/qemu :wink:

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It is too vague. Virtualbox is provided by default repositories.

bor@10:~> zypper search virtualbox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


S | Name                           | Summary                        | Type
--+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+-----------
  | python3-virtualbox             | Python bindings for virtualbox | package
  | virtualbox                     | VirtualBox is an Emulator      | package
  | virtualbox                     | VirtualBox is an Emulator      | srcpackage
  | virtualbox-devel               | Devel files for virtualbox     | package
  | virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons | Icons for guest desktop files  | package
  | virtualbox-guest-source        | Source files for virtualbox -> | package
  | virtualbox-guest-tools         | VirtualBox guest tools         | package
  | virtualbox-guest-x11           | VirtualBox X11 drivers for m-> | package
  | virtualbox-host-source         | Source files for virtualbox -> | package
  | virtualbox-kmp                 | Kernel modules for VirtualBox  | srcpackage
  | virtualbox-kmp-default         | Kernel modules for VirtualBox  | package
  | virtualbox-qt                  | Qt GUI part for virtualbox     | package
  | virtualbox-vnc                 | VNC desktop sharing            | package
  | virtualbox-websrv              | WebService GUI part for virt-> | package
bor@10:~>

How do I go about installing it.

You just install it.

zypper install virtualbox

Is Virtual Box the best hypervisor to use with openSuse

“Best” is in the eyes of beholder. I am fine with QEMU.

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Thanks for the reply. Why do you prefer QEMU over Virtual Box? I’ve only every used Virtual Box on a Windows OS host. Never tried anything else but wanted one running on Leap 15.4 host OS.

As an aside I have an old PC knocking about with Windows on it. It’s an i5 so not too bad. I was thinking of setting that up with a type 1 hypervisor on it just for testing out a few different OS’s. I’d like to look at Kali for penetration testing my network. I guess I could still do that as a type 2 on openSuse though.