Install Dependencies
Install Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
# sudo yum install epel-release wget -y
Install Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)
# sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install dkms -y
This will install quite a few packages:
Install Development Tools
# sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y
Install Kernel Development
# sudo yum install kernel-devel -y
Install VirtualBox by adding the VirtualBox package repository
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
Install VirtualBox
# sudo yum install VirtualBox-5.0 -y
This will also install a number of dependencies.
Install VirtualBox Extension Pack
The VirtualBox Extension Pack will add support for the following:
- USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller
- Host Webcam
- VirtualBox RDP
- PXE ROM
- Disk Encryption
- NVMe
Download the extension pack:
# sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.6/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.6-120293.vbox-extpack
Once downloaded, install the extension pack:
# sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.6-120293.vbox-extpack
OR, if you are upgrading from a previous version of the extension pack, then you will need to add the ‘–replace’ option to uninstall the old version first.
# sudo VBoxManage extpack install --replace Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.6-120293.vbox-extpack
Agree to the license terms and conditions.
Do you agree to these license terms and conditions (y/n)? y
The extension will be installed.
Verify that the extension pack has been installed successfully.
# sudo VBoxManage list extpacks
You should see output like the following:
Add Users to ‘vboxusers’ Group
When VirtualBox is installed a new group ‘vboxusers’ is created. Users that are a member of this group will be allowed to run VirtualBox. I will add my non-privileged user to this group.
adduser vbox passwd vbox
# sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers vbox
Create the file /etc/default/virtualbox and put the line
VBOXWEB_USER=vbox
Check that the vboxdrv service has installed correctly and is running.
# sudo systemctl status vboxdrv
You should see output like the following:
The status should be ‘loaded‘ and ‘active‘. If you see a ‘Kernel driver not installed‘ message then try running the following command:
sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
VirtualBox Web Service (vboxweb)
Check that the vboxweb service is running:
# sudo systemctl status vboxweb-service
You should see output like the following:
Exclusive Hardware Virtualization
VirtualBox will be given exclusive use of the hardware virtualization extensions (Intel VT-x or AMD-V). I think this defaults to on but let’s set it anyway.
# VBoxManage setproperty hwvirtexclusive on
Default Front End
I am not running a GUI on this server so all virtual machines will be running in headless mode.
# VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend headless
Install PHPVirtualbox:
Start with installing LAMP Stack
yum install httpd
If you have firewalld running use the firewall policy update:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http # systemctl restart firewalld# firewall-cmd --state # firewall-cmd --list-all # firewall-cmd --list-interfaces # firewall-cmd --get-service # firewall-cmd --query-service service_name # firewall-cmd --add-port=8080/tcp
Install PHP (default 5.4 on a CentOS 7 is fine to run phpvirtualbox)
# yum install php php-mysql php-pdo php-gd php-mbstring php-soap php-xml
Now test PHP installation is working properly-
# echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/info.php # systemctl restart httpd
Now open browser and type http://<ip>/info.php
Download and Install PHPVirtualbox:
In my case, I’m downloading version 5.0-5
cd /tmp wget https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox/archive/refs/tags/5.0-5.zip unzip 5.0-5.zip
After that mv the unzipped folder to /var/www/html/<phpvirtualbox>
cd /var/www/html/<phpvirtualbox>
cp config.php-sample config.php
nano config.php
- update the user and password of vbox.
- uncomment the console IP
Now point your browser to-
http://<ip>/<phpvirtualbox>
Src:
https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox/releases
https://www.tecmint.com/install-lamp-in-centos-7/
