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Mastering CentOS 7 Linux Server

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785282393
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Alibi Mohamed Alibi
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BHASKARJYOTI ROY BHASKARJYOTI ROY
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Advanced User Management 2. Security FREE CHAPTER 3. Linux for Different Purposes 4. Mail Server with Postfix 5. Monitoring and Logging 6. Virtualization 7. Cloud Computing 8. Configuration Management 9. Some Additional Tricks and Tools Index

Setting up VirtualBox virtualization on CentOS 7


Oracle VirtualBox is a virtualization application that has the capacity to run on multiple computer architectures (Intel, AMD-based systems) and on almost every available OS (OSX, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and so on), where it allows its users to run multiple operating systems on the same physical machine. Basically, virtual box is a full virtualization technology.

Most people count on it while using multiple systems and need to export and import template virtual machines, where virtual box offers a variety of options to exchange virtual machines between all kinds of infrastructures.

This section will show you how to install Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.2 on CentOS 7. Firstly, we need to add the VirtualBox yum repository to our system. So, we need to create its repo file in the YUM repository directory:

$ sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

Then, we need to put the following code into the file and save it:

[virtualbox...
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