Help with VirtualBox??????
Germán A. Racca
german.racca at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 22:49:52 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:46 +0200, DB wrote:
> On 30/09/10 00:35, Germán A. Racca wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 15:23 +0200, DB wrote:
> >> On 28/09/10 00:49, users-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> >>> The version of VirtualBox from the fedora repos does not include USB
> >>> access.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Uninstall VirtualBox-OSE.
> >>> 2) Then copy the repo from here
> >>> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
> >>> to yum.repos.d
> >>> 3) yum install VirtualBox-3.2
> >>>
> >>> (seehttp://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks, Steven, that has solved my problem!!!!
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> > I've used VirtualBox-OSE (from rpmfusion) and VirtualBox (from the repo
> > above) to run the liveCD of Fedora 14 Beta, but it didn't boot in any of
> > the two versions of virtualbox. The same happended with the liveCD of
> > Fedora 14 Alfa, it didn't boot.
> >
> > Does it happen to you? Any ideas?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Germán.
> >
> Hi German,
>
> Nope, once I removed the Fedora repo version & installed the one from
> virtualbox.org everything seems fine. Had to make sure I didn't try to
> use the USB drive in bothe the vm WinXP and the Fedora host machine, and
> to click on the USB device in the Devices tag of the VM, but other than
> that, no problems. BUT....I am still using F12.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
Many thanks Dave for your reply. I'm using virtualbox in my host Fedora
13 amd athlon 64 and 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64.
More ideas? Did it happen to someone else that used virtualbox to run
Fedora 14 Alfa or Beta?
Regards,
Germán.
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Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
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