Install Virtualbox in Centos 6.4

Install Virtualbox in CentOS 6.4 , 64 Bit

This post is about installing Virtualbox 4.3 in CentOS 6.4, 64 Bit architecture.

Download Virtualbox 4.3 from the following link,

wget "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.2/VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.2_90405_el6-1.x86_64.rpm"

rpm -ivh  "VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.2_90405_el6-1.x86_64.rpm"

While installing I ended up in the following error.

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [  OK  ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
When I checked the log,it was reporting that,

cat /var/log/vbox-install.log


Makefile:183: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop. centos 6.4


So I Installed Kernel Header packages first

yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-headers.x86_64

Still the error persisted.

While searching, I came across this link.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-virtualbox-on-centos-6-3-x64

I just made a try by adding the export statement


export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64/



Now Uninstall and install the package again.

rpm -e  VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.2_90405_el6-1.x86_64
rpm -ivh  "VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.2_90405_el6-1.x86_64.rpm"

Now the problems were resolved ! .

At last Virtualbox got installed successfully !