Re: KVM x VirtualBox

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi,

I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the repos from Y as they already solve X".

[]s, Fernando Lozano
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Fernando Cassia 
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" 
> Sent: Seg, Mai 30, 2011, 15:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: Re: KVM x VirtualBox
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 13:58,   wrote:
> > Hi Fernando,
> >
> > I'm used to not trust proprietary software vendor repos and packages
>
> Virtualbox is Free Software, with a GPL license. "Proprietary software
> vendors" also applies to lots of other firms that also sponsor open
> source projects. You need to cool down your preconceptions.
>
> In fact, Virtualbox got even more free under Oracle than it was under
> Sun... with the full product available under a GPL license and the
> propietary (freeware) stuff moved to the extensions package.
>
> While in the past, Virtualbox was available under two licenses, the
> full was "freeware" and the OSS version lacked certain features.
>
> It seems to me that you´ve already made your judgement, so use the
> repo that you please.
> FC
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KVM x VirtualBox

[Brian Mury]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:41,   wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the repos from Y as they already solve X".

I have been using the Oracle repos for a long time. I have never had a problem.

KVM x VirtualBox

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 15:41,   wrote:
> I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the repos from Y as they already solve X".

Oracle provides RPM builds for Fedora 15, along with Ubuntu all the
way back to Hardy Heron, the last two Debian versions, along with the
last 4 Red Hat server versions, amont others.

That´s what the Oracle repos for Fedora provides.

In other words, if you enable the Oracle repos, you won´t get a
package that has not been built and tested for your distro. If you
change or upgrade Linux version and Oracle does not provide a build
for it, yum (or apt-get) won´t download it.

That´s how I believe things work.

FC

KVM x VirtualBox

[Johan Scheepers]

On 30/05/2011 20:46, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 15:41,  wrote:
> > I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the repos from Y as they already solve X".
>
> Oracle provides RPM builds for Fedora 15, along with Ubuntu all the
> way back to Hardy Heron, the last two Debian versions, along with the
> last 4 Red Hat server versions, amont others.
>
> That´s what the Oracle repos for Fedora provides.
>
> In other words, if you enable the Oracle repos, you won´t get a
> package that has not been built and tested for your distro. If you
> change or upgrade Linux version and Oracle does not provide a build
> for it, yum (or apt-get) won´t download it.
>
> That´s how I believe things work.
>
> FC

Never done this before.
Would like to try virtualbox.

Kindly point me in the right direction to enable oracle repos
OR
kindly provide info howto do it please.
Thanks
Johan

KVM x VirtualBox

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 16:40, Johan Scheepers  wrote:
> Kindly point me in the right direction to enable oracle repos
> OR
> kindly provide info howto do it please.
> Thanks
> Johan

Hi Johan,

It´s pointed out here... for Debian, Ubuntu, and RPM based distros
like Fedora/OpenSUSE, etc

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

(read the text below the download links)

FC