[Ansible Galaxy] Use Ansible andrewrothstein.virtualbox to install VirtualBox

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andrewrothstein.virtualbox

Installs Oracle Virtualbox.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See “About VirtualBox” for an introduction.

Installation

First, Install Ansible.

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# Mac OS X
$ brew install ansible

$ ansible --version

Then, install it use:

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$ ansible-galaxy install andrewrothstein.virtualbox

Requirements

See meta/main.yml

Role Variables

See defaults/main.yml

Dependencies

See meta/main.yml

Example Playbook

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- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - andrewrothstein.virtualbox

References

[1] andrewrothstein/ansible-virtualbox - https://github.com/andrewrothstein/ansible-virtualbox

[2] andrewrothstein/virtualbox | Ansible Galaxy - https://galaxy.ansible.com/andrewrothstein/virtualbox

[3] Oracle VM VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/

[4] Ansible is Simple IT Automation - https://www.ansible.com/

[5] Installing Ansible — Ansible Documentation - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html