VirtualBox on F9

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Wed Apr 16 00:21:50 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> That was what I tried to do.  The installer complained that it needed
> libcrypto.so.6.  I looked for that with Yum and had no luck and then
> posted my question.

Ah, that brings back memories now.  (errm, not nostalgic, just
aggravated ones.)  I tried some symlinking or something and it didn't
work.  The trouble is that Fedora 9 has a later version--crypto is part
of SSL.  

So, I downloaded the source, I think it will ask for some
libstc++ library and if you put in yum install whatever it says, yum
will get the needed rpm.  

It was still relatively trivial though. 

> 
> Thanks; when I have more time I'll come back to your comments to try
> to build it, and hope in the meantime that someone prepares a working
> rpm for F9.

Building it isn't a difficult or tricky compilation.  You download the
generic one, which has a .run suffix or something similar, then just
type sh whatever_they_call_it.run.  It is probably almost as quick as
installing the rpm. 
I would recommend first doing
yum install make gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel 

This will pull in other things such as kernel-headers which are also
necessary. 

After each upgrade of the kernel, you'll have to run
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

It only takes a minute or so to rebuild the module.  

Honestly, it is quite trivial. 


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