Package List Discussion

Richard Turner rjt at zygous.co.uk
Wed Jun 4 13:17:04 UTC 2014


On 4 June 2014 14:01, Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/04/2014 02:14 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
> > Mostly I use virtualisation to test stuff in MSIE on various flavours of
> > Windows. If GNOME Boxes, libvirt, etc. is installed by default then I'll
> > remove it and install VirtualBox. That's not because I prefer VBox - I
> > don't at all - but because Microsoft provides images for VBox and making
> > them work nicely with libvirt is a hassle I can do without.
>
> This is a very good use case, thanks for bringing this up.
>
> Is there anything we could do to make it easier for you? I know
> VirtualBox distributes their stuff upstream in rpm format, but compiles
> parts of it (the kernel modules) after installation. Would it make it
> easier to set up VirtualBox if we included the kernel-devel and gcc
> packages in the default install?
>
>
It's been quite a while since I needed go install VBox: now that I already
have the dependencies installed I can just download and install the RPM
from Oracle's site whenever VBox notifies me of an update. However,
initially I used instructions from If Not True Then False
<http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-with-yum-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/>
to install VBox. One can see there that you're right; gcc, kernel-devel,
etc. are required for compiling the kernel modules. So, yes, there's
certainly scope there to make VBox installation far easier than it
currently is.

-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."
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