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Install virtualbox 5.0 on ubuntu

Virtualbox is a very simple & powerful virtualization tool that is used to create & manage Virtual Machines.  Virtual is released and managed by Oracle.

Oracle finally announced the stable release of Virtualbox 5.0, which provides increased security with encryption and improved performance.

According to the press release, the 5.0 release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems.

VirtualBox 5.0.10 has been released with added basic support for X.org server 1.18.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0
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