Install VirtualBox 5.1.16 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10

Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, innotek VirtualBox and Sun xVM VirtualBox) is a free and cross-platform virtualization application that provides a family of powerful x86 virtualization tools designed for desktop, server and embedded use. VirtualBox can be used on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms to run virtual machines of any of the aforementioned operating systems, as well as any BSD distribution, IMB OS/2 flavors, DOS, Netware, L4, QNX, and JRockitVE.

It’s portable

Oracle VirtualBox is portable, requires no hardware virtualization, includes guest additions and great hardware support. It also features USB device support, full ACPI support, multiscreen resolutions, and built-in iSCSI support. Support for PXE network boot, multi-generation branched snapshots, remote machine display, extensible RDP authentication, and USB over RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is also integrated in Oracle VirtualBox.

What’s new in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.16

VMM: don’t access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
GUI: hide the mini-toolbar from the taskbar and the pager on certain X11 hosts
GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd –resize (bug #16311)
rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
Linux Installers: do not rebuild kernel modules unnecessarily (bug #16408)
Linux hosts: added an action for opening the VM manager window to the .desktop file
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
Linux Additions: added vboxsf FS modules alias (bug #16404)
Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10
Linux Additions: properly install the Linux kernel module override rule on distributions without /etc/depmod.d
Windows Additions: fixed a crash with recent Windows 10 builds if 3D is disabled (bug #15973)

How to : Install VirtualBox 5.1.16 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10 :

Install VirtualBox 5.1.16 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For ubuntu 16.04 xenial xerus 32 bit :