Comments on: VirtualBox 3.0.2 in Fedora 11 32-bit (FIX)

By: hendro

hendro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:46:56 +0000

thanks thanks thanks. very much.
for me kernel-devel is not enough.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:23:17 +0000

Hey Omen,
What is the problem? Go to Settings, than USB–>Add a USB filter, than it should work for you.

By: omen

omen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:17:19 +0000

hi Could you help me? I have some troubles with usb device it is not recognized for the virtual machine

By: admin

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:48 +0000

@Colonna, Welcome dear

By: Colonna

Colonna — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:39:51 +0000

Thank you for your clear and precise text.
It helped me a lot.

By: SteveB

SteveB — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:54:16 +0000

kernel-devel was enough for me. I was sure I had it installed, but there you go. Thanks for the tip!

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:04:03 +0000

Probably the only one of those commands you actually needed was ‘yum install kernel-devel’. There’s no earthly reason you’d need to install SDL to build VirtualBox’s kernel modules.

By: Lubomir Rintel

Lubomir Rintel — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:21:07 +0000

Stu is completely right. We spent quite som work in RPM Fusion to make VirtualBox-OSE “just work”, all you have to do is “yum install VirtualBox-OSE”. Same applies for the Guest Additions.

Besides obvious advantages of having the package from yum repository such as getting security fixes automatically, the binaries you can download form Sun are non-free and can not be used commercially unless you pay (that’s not to discourage you from paying, if you need support .

By: admin

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:26:21 +0000

@Joseph, Welcome dear!
@Stu, Yeah! I downloaded VirtualBox from Sun, from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:32:30 +0000

Are you using the (part-proprietary) Virtualbox direct from Sun? I never have to recompile the kernel module using the open source edition in RPMFusion – kmod packages take care of that. The differences between the Sun binaries and the RPMfusion ones are pretty minimal in terms of features I think – at least nothing I miss (some USB stuff…)