Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Upgrading VirtualBox

It wasn't as easy as though, so here's the drill:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0
If you get errors about trust/keys/whatever, do:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
then, retry the above.

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.10/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.10-72436.vbox-extpack
chmod 744 Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.10-72436.vbox-extpac
VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.0-69151.vbox-extpac

add yourself to the vboxusers group:
usermod -G vboxusers frank