Yes, though several versions of VirtualBox and Slackware.
As mentioned above, be sure to install "everything" when you install Slackware (so you'll have the kernel source among other things that might just be useful even if not particularly for VirtualBox).
You'll find what you need at
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads; you download
VirtualBox 4.2.4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack from there (get the current version, currently 4.2.4).
Once that has completed, click the link right above that section for
VirtualBox for Linux Hosts; that will take you to
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. Look down the list to the bottom and select the
All Distributions AMD64 link. The file you'll get is
VirtualBox-4.2.4-81684-Linux_amd64.run which is 80,362,961 bytes (that's current as of today).
You need to be root to install, you simply
Code:
su - <or sudo or log in as root>
cd dir_where_download_is
sh VirtualBox-4.2.4-81684-Linux_amd64.run install
That will unpack into
/opt/VirtualBox, build the kernel modules, create the necessary files in
/etc/init.d (
vboxdrv), create a group called
vboxusers and put appropriate symbolic links in system directories.
You will need to manually add users to the
vboxusers group; you do that
Code:
su - <or sudo or log in as root)
usermod -a -G vboxusers username[,username,...]
Make sure to, as @chrisretusn recommends, install the Extension Pack before you add any virtual machines.
Something to think about.
When you add a virtual machine it will, by default, be added in your home directory. Say you're installing Win7 as a guest; you'll want to allocate at least 20G to make it useable.
Something I've done (lessons learned during a wasted youth, this) is to add a partition during setup of Slackware that I've named
virtual and gave it, oh, 90G (keep in mind that you're new box is going to have something like a 250G, 500G or even 1T drive, so 90G - 100G isn't out of the question). I specify that it mounts to
/var/lib/virtual (just because
/var/lib is where MySQL and PostgreSQL mount, so what the heck) but you could mount it to wherever you want.
You do have to do a little bit of fiddling (once) before you start up VirtualBox the first time:
Code:
su -
chown root.vboxusers /var/lib/virtual
chmod 775 /var/lib/virtual
but that's not a big burden.
Up to you whether you want virtual machines in your home directory or off somewhere else; it's simple to do and it might save you some trouble somewhere down the road.
Hope this helps some.
