Download VirtualBox for Linux

El paquete de la arquitectura tiene que coincidir con la arquitectura del núcleo de Linux, es decir, si está ejecutando un núcleo de 64 bits, instale el paquete adecuado AMD64 (no importa si usted tiene un procesador Intel o AMD CPU). Instalaciones mixtas (por ejemplo Debian / Lenny AMD64 buques un núcleo con paquetes de 32 bits) no son compatibles. VirtualBox para instalar de todas formas que usted necesita para configurar un equipo de 64 bits del entorno chroot.

Por favor, elija el paquete adecuado para su distribución de Linux:

• Ubuntu 9.04 ("Jaunty Jackalope") i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 8.10 ("Intrepid Ibex") i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ("Hardy Heron") i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon") i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") i386 |AMD64
• Debian 5.0 ("Lenny") i386 | AMD64
• Debian 4.0 ("Etch") i386 | AMD64
• Debian 3.1 ("Sarge") i386
• openSUSE 11.1 i386 | AMD64
• openSUSE 11.0 i386 | AMD64
• openSUSE 10.3 i386 | AMD64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) i386 | AMD64
• Fedora 11 ("Leonidas") i386 | AMD64
• Fedora 9 ("Sulphur") / 10 ("Cambridge") i386 | AMD64
• Fedora 8 ("Werewolf") i386 | AMD64
• Fedora 7 ("Moonshine") i386 | AMD64
• Mandriva 2009.1 i386 | AMD64
• Mandriva 2008.0 i386
• Mandriva 2007.1 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") / CentOS 5 i386 | AMD64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ("RHEL4") i386
• Turbolinux 11 i386 | AMD64
• PCLinuxOS 2007 i386
• Xandros Desktop 4.1 i386
• All distributions i386 | AMD64

Debian-based Linux distributions: Add one of the following lines according to your distribution to your/etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian gutsy non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian dapper non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian sarge non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xandros4.0-xn non-free

The Sun public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here. You can add this key with

sudo apt-key add sun_vbox.asc

or combine downloading and registering:

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

The key fingerprint is

AF45 1228 01DA D613 29EF 9570 DCF9 F87B 6DFB CBAE

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (xVM VirtualBox archive signing key)

To install VirtualBox, do

apt-get install virtualbox-2.2

Fuente: http://actualidad-linux.blogspot.com