VirtualBox for Fedora18?

Sandro Mani manisandro at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 07:30:49 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi F18 testers,
>
> Is there an option to install VirtualBox in Fedora 18? The
> rpmfusion-updates-testing offers Virtualbox only for kernel
> 3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18, but i'm running kernel-3.6.0-5.fc18.x86_64.
>
> Any hints are welcome.
>
> Kind regards
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It's easy to rebuild the kernel module manually for the installed kernel:

sudo yum -y install kmodtool time VirtualBox-kmodsrc
buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current
rpmbuild --rebuild VirtualBox-kmod-4.2.0-2.fc19.src.rpm
sudo yum -y erase kmodtool time VirtualBox-kmodsrc
buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current

- Sandro


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