Virtual Box on Bazitte?

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Hello everyone,

I need to run VMs on Virtual Box.
How can I install Virtual Box and its Extension Pack on Bazitte?

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I m not sure about virtual-box but i have been using virt-manager installed via ujust pretty successfully lately

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Hi, do you absolutely need VirtualBox or are you fine with QEMU/KVM? Because unfortunately, using VirtualBox requires kernel modules, and that would involve building your own image and using uBlue akmod to add that kmod to the image.

If you don’t absolutely need VBox, then I’d recommend using either GNOME Boxes from Flathub or rpm-ostree install gnome-boxes or the more powerful virt-manager with ujust setup-virtualization or manually with rpm-ostree install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-config-network libvirt-daemon-kvm virt-install virt-manager virt-viewer virt-top libguestfs python3-libguestfs.

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Hello everyone,

Thanks for your answers.

I have professional VMs already running on VirtualBox, and I really need them for my work.

If I have to do without VirtualBox, is there a conversion tool that lets me export my VirtualBox VMs to GNOME Box or another solution compatible with Bazitte?

Do you have any ideas?

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Ah, then you do need to build an image. Setting up a repo for building an image is easy, just follow this guide. I’ve never used akmods though, but there is a guide here, and you can go to the Discord for a more live answer if you want someone check your recipe/Containerfile.

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In the end I did without VirtualBox and followed your advice. I activated virtualization and installed GNOME Boxes and it was able to run my VirtualBox iso drives. Thanks a lot!