Hi all F24 users,
Having problems to use a simple CD/DVD drive for the usage in VirtualBox from UnitedRpms: The correspondent storage dialog only accepts iso files for a virtual CD/DVD. Devices as /dev/sr0 are not accepted.
No such problems with VB from oracle.
Anybody sees this too?
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 08:18 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
Having problems to use a simple CD/DVD drive for the usage in VirtualBox from UnitedRpms: The correspondent storage dialog only accepts iso files for a virtual CD/DVD. Devices as /dev/sr0 are not accepted.
I've no idea what UnitedRpms is, however I know the standard free version of VirtualBox does not redirect USB devices. For that you need the Oracle version.
poc
On 07/19/16 13:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 08:18 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
Having problems to use a simple CD/DVD drive for the usage in VirtualBox from UnitedRpms: The correspondent storage dialog only accepts iso files for a virtual CD/DVD. Devices as /dev/sr0 are not accepted.
I'd say, UnitedRpms is a (better, more actual) replacement for rpmfusion.
I've no idea what UnitedRpms is, however I know the standard free version of VirtualBox does not redirect USB devices. For that you need the Oracle version.
/dev/sr0 is no USB device, but a SATA attached DVD drive.
poc
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:25PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Joachim Backes wrote:
I'd say, UnitedRpms is a (better, more actual) replacement for rpmfusion.
What does "more actual" mean? Is it more likely to be compatible with CentOS and EPEL?
well, I don't know what the OP means, exactly, but as of the last time I looked, rpmfusion did NOT have an EL7 repository, so if this UnitedRpms does, maybe it is "actual" instead of "virtual".
I've always used rpmfusion with epel on my Centos systems, but since rpmfusion doesn't have EL7, I've gone with the nux repos.
On 19/07/16 14:08, Fred Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:25PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Joachim Backes wrote:
I'd say, UnitedRpms is a (better, more actual) replacement for rpmfusion.
What does "more actual" mean? Is it more likely to be compatible with CentOS and EPEL?
well, I don't know what the OP means, exactly, but as of the last time I looked, rpmfusion did NOT have an EL7 repository, so if this UnitedRpms does, maybe it is "actual" instead of "virtual".
I suspect it means 'actuellement' > 'current, up to date'
I've always used rpmfusion with epel on my Centos systems, but since rpmfusion doesn't have EL7, I've gone with the nux repos.
The website says f24/f25
Fred Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:25PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Joachim Backes wrote:
I'd say, UnitedRpms is a (better, more actual) replacement for rpmfusion.
What does "more actual" mean? Is it more likely to be compatible with CentOS and EPEL?
well, I don't know what the OP means, exactly, but as of the last time I looked, rpmfusion did NOT have an EL7 repository, so if this UnitedRpms does, maybe it is "actual" instead of "virtual".
Sorry, thought I was in the CentOS newsgroup ... I should have said, "Is it more likely to be compatible with Fedora".
On 07/19/16 20:19, Joachim Backes wrote:
On 07/19/16 13:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 08:18 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
Having problems to use a simple CD/DVD drive for the usage in VirtualBox from UnitedRpms: The correspondent storage dialog only accepts iso files for a virtual CD/DVD. Devices as /dev/sr0 are not accepted.
I'd say, UnitedRpms is a (better, more actual) replacement for rpmfusion.
I've no idea what UnitedRpms is, however I know the standard free version of VirtualBox does not redirect USB devices. For that you need the Oracle version.
/dev/sr0 is no USB device, but a SATA attached DVD drive.
Right, BUT extension pack is providing a "virtual USB" interface to access that device.
The CDROM device on the VBox host is seen as a USB device. :
On 07/19/16 14:18, Joachim Backes wrote:
Having problems to use a simple CD/DVD drive for the usage in VirtualBox from UnitedRpms: The correspondent storage dialog only accepts iso files for a virtual CD/DVD. Devices as /dev/sr0 are not accepted.
No such problems with VB from oracle.
Anybody sees this too?
I too have no idea what the UnitedRpms are....
What I do know is that you need the matching Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack for the Guest OS to access some HW features of the Host. If you don't have the in the United RPMs that is probably the issue.
On 07/19/16 13:25, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/19/16 14:18, Joachim Backes wrote:
Having problems to use a simple CD/DVD drive for the usage in VirtualBox from UnitedRpms: The correspondent storage dialog only accepts iso files for a virtual CD/DVD. Devices as /dev/sr0 are not accepted.
No such problems with VB from oracle.
Anybody sees this too?
I too have no idea what the UnitedRpms are....
I'd say, it's a (better, more actual) replacement for rpmfusion: https://gitlab.com/groups/FedoraUnited
What I do know is that you need the matching Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack for the Guest OS to access some HW features of the Host.
The problem: I didn't find any (the VB version from UnitedRpms is VirtualBox-5.0.20-1.fc24.x86_64), and the correspondent extpack version from Oracle is Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.20-106931.vbox-extpack). But there is no extpack for the UnitedRpms version.
If you don't have the in the United RPMs
that is probably the issue.
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 14:29 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
The problem: I didn't find any (the VB version from UnitedRpms is VirtualBox-5.0.20-1.fc24.x86_64), and the correspondent extpack version from Oracle is Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.20-106931.vbox-extpack). But there is no extpack for the UnitedRpms version.
Which goes back to what I said (even if your device isn't on USB). The free version of VBox doesn't have the extension pack. The pack is "free as in beer" but you have to get it from virtualbox.org. The easiest way is to remove the UnitedRpms version of VBox, install the repo file from virtualbox.org, then reinstall VBox. Note that you still have to download the extension pack and install it from within VBox.
poc
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