The missing webserver is a known issue with 6.1.26; they did a clean up of the build process and inadvertently deleted it.

There is a version of phpvirtualbox that is built to work with VB6.1 - if I remember correctly, it's not in the the development zip, but on a branch .. if I can recall where I got it, I'll post a link. It is possible to get 6.1.26 working with the php web i/f, but it's a bit convoluted(!) - basically you have to import the webserver bits from .24 and keep them 'intact' when you upgrade.

Richard George wrote:

All I can tell you is that, having installed all the dependencies from the COS repositories, mine works without any problems.

Good to know that everything will work as designed at a certain moment ;-)

All I can tell you is that, having installed all the dependencies from the COS repositories, mine works without any problems.

@Richard: I had a similar idea to install 6.1 manually, but I ran into all kind of dependencies issues. That is where I stopped, due to production risks.

I can’t be 100%, but I seem to recall that I had to install the initial 6.1 manually, and then updates followed automatically. The reasoning seems to be that they initially release new versions alongside the existing stable version in the same repository. You therefore need to do; yum install VirtualBox-6.1 (or similar) to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. From then on, it updates within the 6.1 lifetime. Can’t remember the full details of what I did … long time ago now.

@Nick, @Richard

Check the results below for my system


[root@~]# yum update VirtualBox --enablerepo=virtualbox
Loaded plugins: clearcenter-marketplace, fastestmirror
ClearCenter Marketplace: fetching repositories...
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* clearos: www.mirrorservice.org
* clearos-centos: download2.clearsdn.com
* clearos-centos-sclo-rh: download2.clearsdn.com
* clearos-centos-updates: download2.clearsdn.com
* clearos-centosplus: download2.clearsdn.com
* clearos-contribs: www.mirrorservice.org
* clearos-epel: download2.clearsdn.com
* clearos-fast-updates: download2.clearsdn.com
* clearos-infra: www.mirrorservice.org
* clearos-paid: mirror1-frankfurt.clearos.com
* clearos-updates: www.mirrorservice.org
clearos | 3.7 kB 00:00:00
clearos-centos | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
clearos-centos-sclo-rh | 3.0 kB 00:00:00
clearos-centos-updates | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
clearos-centosplus | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
clearos-contribs | 3.5 kB 00:00:00
clearos-epel | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
clearos-fast-updates | 3.0 kB 00:00:00
clearos-infra | 3.5 kB 00:00:00
clearos-updates | 3.5 kB 00:00:00
docker-ce-stable | 3.5 kB 00:00:00
ovpm | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
virtualbox/7/x86_64/signature | 181 B 00:00:00
virtualbox/7/x86_64/signature | 2.9 kB 00:00:00 !!!
zerotier | 3.0 kB 00:00:00
(1/20): clearos/7/group_gz | 1.6 kB 00:00:00
(2/20): clearos/7/primary_db | 1.1 MB 00:00:00
(3/20): clearos-centos/x86_64/group_gz | 153 kB 00:00:00
(4/20): clearos-contribs/7/updateinfo | 96 B 00:00:00
(5/20): clearos-contribs/7/primary_db | 68 kB 00:00:00
(6/20): clearos-centos-sclo-rh/x86_64/primary_db | 3.2 MB 00:00:03
(7/20): clearos-fast-updates/x86_64/primary_db | 10 kB 00:00:00
(8/20): clearos-infra/7/updateinfo | 96 B 00:00:00
(9/20): clearos-infra/7/primary_db | 12 kB 00:00:00
(10/20): clearos-updates/7/updateinfo | 96 B 00:00:00
(11/20): clearos-updates/7/primary_db | 171 kB 00:00:00
(12/20): docker-ce-stable/x86_64/updateinfo | 55 B 00:00:00
(13/20): docker-ce-stable/x86_64/primary_db | 66 kB 00:00:00
(14/20): ovpm/primary_db | 1.6 kB 00:00:00
(15/20): clearos-centos/x86_64/primary_db | 6.1 MB 00:00:06
(16/20): zerotier/primary_db | 34 kB 00:00:00
(17/20): virtualbox/7/x86_64/primary_db | 183 kB 00:00:01
(18/20): clearos-centosplus/x86_64/primary_db | 4.8 MB 00:00:09
(19/20): clearos-centos-updates/x86_64/primary_db | 11 MB 00:00:11
(20/20): clearos-epel/7/x86_64/primary_db | 13 MB 00:00:12
clearos-paid | 3.5 kB 00:00:00
No Match for argument: VirtualBox
No package VirtualBox available.
No packages marked for update

and downloaded this week the latest virtualbox.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d

[virtualbox]
name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc


It used to work btw. I remember running into challenges and therefor I skipped proposed yum updates in the past

Like to find out what is causing this ;-)

FWIW, I've installed VirtualBox from the Oracle distro, and I don't have any issues. Currently running 6.1.26 (the latest).

Check that your virtualbox.repo file (or whatever you've called it) as enabled=1 in; without that, it won't update.

[virtualbox]

name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox

baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/$releasever/$basearch

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

repo_gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc

It looks like you installed the package from a "virtualbox" repo. As it does not show in your list of repos I suspect it is disabled. You could try:

yum update VirtualBox --enablerepo=virtualbox

I would not do a general "yum update" in case it brings in other third party apps from the virtualbox repo.