On 13/06/14 18:57, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com wrote:
AFAICS, the RpmFusion package uses akmod not DKMS to build the kernel module(s).
With kmod you have two options either install kmod-VirtualBox which has pre-built kernel modules in which case you'll have to wait for the package to get updated to get the modules for the updated kernel; or install akmod-VirtualBox which should build the module at boot, of course the build can fail and require a patch... etc.
-- Ahmad Samir
I haven't had any problems with the Oracle supplied VirtualBox for a few months. The one from RPMFusion kept lagging behind; yum would upgrade to latest kernel irrespective of if VirtualBox's dependencies are met or not.
I am not with or against using the package from upstream; but you could remove kmod-VirtualBox and install akmod-VirtualBox and that one doesn't depend of a specific kernel version as it's supposed to build the kernel modules automatically for a new kernel.