How-To

VirtualBox Extension Pack Install

Jon Eaton

• 1 min read

This is a quick How-To to install the Oracle VirtualBox extension pack using the command line on a Ubuntu host, though it should be very similar on other distributions.

Assuming VirtualBox is already installed, we can check the version as below: 

jon@Ubuntu:~$ vboxmanage --version
6.1.32_Ubuntur149290

Following which we can download the correct version of the extension pack from Oracle.

jon@Ubuntu:~$ wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.32/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack
--2022-05-02 18:54:46--  https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.32/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack
Resolving download.virtualbox.org (download.virtualbox.org)... 23.217.8.42
Connecting to download.virtualbox.org (download.virtualbox.org)|23.217.8.42|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11137804 (11M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack’

Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack   100%[====================================================================================================================================>]  10.62M  34.4MB/s    in 0.3s    

2022-05-06 13:54:48 (34.4 MB/s) - ‘Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack’ saved [11137804/11137804]

jon@Ubuntu:~$

Finally to install it, simply use the command below and accept the license agreement (assuming you comply with them).

jon@Ubuntu:~$ sudo VBoxManage extpack installl Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack

That's All Folks.