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    Which VirtualBox and a couple more questions

    Which VirtualBox should I use? The one from Oracle or from the repos? I would like to try out Kubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 while keeping Kubuntu 16.04 for daily work..

    I only have a (very decent) WiFi connection. No ethernet. Can I install whichever VirtualBox and guest additions on such a system?

    Some information about my system:
    Code:
    System:    Host: chi-Inspiron-15-3567 Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
             Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.8 (Qt 5.6.1) Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
    Machine:   System: Dell (portable) product: Inspiron 15-3567
             Mobo: Dell model: 0FGN4M v: A00 Bios: Dell v: 01.07.00 date: 04/07/2017
    CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-6006U (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
             flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 7968
             clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 500 MHz 2: 500 MHz
    Graphics:  Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
             Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
             GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2)
             GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
    Audio:     Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
             Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic
    Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k bus-ID: 01:00.0
             IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
             Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
             driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
             IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
             Card-3: Atheros usb-ID: 001-006
             IF: null-if-id state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
    Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (14.5% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD1 size: 1000.2GB
             ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: External_USB_3.0 size: 500.1GB
    Partition: ID-1: / size: 443G used: 52G (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
             ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.31GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4
    RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
    Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A
             Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
    Info:      Processes: 192 Uptime: 4:57 Memory: 1366.7/7851.2MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
             Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
    $
    The graphics is modest and integrated. But hard disk space is not a limitation, I think:
    Code:
    sudo fdisk -l
    [sudo] password for chimak: 
    Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
    Disklabel type: gpt
    Disk identifier: 1ACBE91E-130E-446E-9740-008010615D1D
    
    Device          Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
    /dev/sda1        2048    1026047   1024000   500M EFI System            
    /dev/sda2     1026048    7317503   6291456     3G Microsoft basic data  
    /dev/sda3     7317504  994982023 987664520   471G Linux filesystem
    /dev/sda4  1937289216 1953523711  16234496   7.8G Linux swap
    /dev/sda5   994983936 1937289215 942305280 449.3G Linux filesystem
    
    Partition table entries are not in disk order.
    
    $
    Code:
    $ df -h
    Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    udev            3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
    tmpfs           786M  9.5M  776M   2% /run
    /dev/sda5       443G   52G  369G  13% /
    tmpfs           3.9G   24M  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
    tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
    tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    /dev/sda1       496M   35M  462M   7% /boot/efi
    tmpfs           786M     0  786M   0% /run/user/118
    tmpfs           786M   20K  786M   1% /run/user/1001
    $
    Kubuntu 20.04

    #2
    I've used the Oracle version of VirtualBox for years now.

    I believe it has better USB support for the virtual machines (allows them to use USB devices via the host system). I don't think the repository version allows that, someone correct me if I'm wrong about this. Also the Oracle version is more up to date too.

    I don't think your hardware specs will be a problem.
    Desktop PC: Intel Core-i5-4670 3.40Ghz, 16Gb Crucial ram, Asus H97-Plus MB, 128Gb Crucial SSD + 2Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 HDD running Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and Kubuntu 14.04 LTS (on SSD).
    Laptop: HP EliteBook 8460p Core-i5-2540M, 4Gb ram, Transcend 120Gb SSD, currently running Deepin 15.8 and Manjaro KDE 18.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Rod J View Post
      I don't think the repository version allows that, someone correct me if I'm wrong about this.
      It does support host USB (and various other things), if one installs the virtualbox extension pack, which cannot be distributed by default with the repo version due to licensing issues.

      The extension can be installed manually (you can find it in oracle virtualbox downloads page) or automatically by installing package "virtualbox-ext-pack" (it doesn't include the pack, but automates downloading and installing for you).

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        #4
        Thanks, Rod J and kubicle!

        What I've done so far:
        Installed dkms

        Edited /etc/apt/sources.list to adddeb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib


        Ran
        wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/..._vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
        wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -


        Ran
        sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

        Rebooted.

        Now, I'll download Kubuntu 17.10's iso from https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads using a torrent link
        Kubuntu 20.04

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          #5
          Originally posted by chimak111 View Post
          Thanks, Rod J and kubicle!

          What I've done so far:
          Installed dkms

          Edited /etc/apt/sources.list to adddeb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib


          Ran
          wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/..._vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
          wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -


          Ran
          sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

          Rebooted.

          Now, I'll download Kubuntu 17.10's iso from https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads using a torrent link
          qemu-kvm?

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            #6
            Originally posted by wartnose View Post
            qemu-kvm?
            That is beyond my competence at this stage.

            I went with
            /neon/images/neon-useredition/current/neon-useredition-current.iso
            Size: 1.8G (1886388224 bytes)
            Last modified: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:12:20 GMT (Unix time: 1510161140)
            That installed successfully and ran successfully.

            Kubuntu 17.10 showed me a truncated screen: the "continue" button wasn't visible so I'll wrestle with that later.
            Kubuntu 20.04

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              #7
              Originally posted by chimak111 View Post
              Thanks, Rod J and kubicle!

              What I've done so far:
              Installed dkms

              Edited /etc/apt/sources.list to adddeb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib


              Ran
              wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/..._vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
              wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -


              Ran
              sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

              Rebooted.

              Now, I'll download Kubuntu 17.10's iso from https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads using a torrent link
              Ya know, virtualbox-5.2 is out now?

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                #8
                Originally posted by mr_raider View Post
                Ya know, virtualbox-5.2 is out now?
                Yes! What I have now is version 5.2.0 r118431 (Qt5.6.1)
                Kubuntu 20.04

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