Virtual box is a great package from Oracle which supports the installation of MS Windows, Linux, BDS, and MS-DOS on the installed VMs.

Before we proceed further, run the system repository update commands first...

sudo add-apt-repository multiverse && sudo apt-get update

Apt Install VirtualBox

Now run following command...

sudo apt install virtualbox

Start Virtualbox

virtualbox &

The above command will start the virtual box process in background.

You should see a GUI like this.

Install the VirtualBox Extension Package

You might want to install Virtual Box extension pack, if you want to enable support for following devices...

  1. USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices
  2. VirtualBox RDP
  3. disk encryption
  4. NVMe
  5. PXE boot for Intel cards

To install virtual box extension package, run following command...

sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack

It might prompt you for "Licence Agreement", say "Yes" and proceed forward with installation.