How to Install VirtualBox 4.3 on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn via PPA

 

How to Install VirtualBox 4.3 on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn via PPA

VirtualBox is a powerful PC virtualization solution allowing you to run a wide range of PC operating systems on your Linux system. This includes Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OpenBSD and others. VirtualBox comes with a broad feature set and excellent performance, making it the premier virtualization software solution on the market.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Changelog 4.3.20 :

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bug #13319, #13462)
• VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463,

To Install VirtualBox 4.3 on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn via PPA :

Install the repository GPG key:  

# wget -q -O - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc | sudo apt-key add - 

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list: 

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ utopic contrib

Update the package index:

# sudo apt-get update

Install virtualbox-4.3 deb package:

# sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.