Virtualization for Beginner

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:07:11 +0200
> From: Erik P. Olsen <epodata at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
>     <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
>     <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Virtualization for Beginner
> 
> On 22/04/09 11:05, das wrote:
>> On 4/22/09, Erik P. Olsen <epodata at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> yum install VirtualBox is piece of cake.
>>
>> I am reading this mail on an F10 box, and yum install VirtualBox and tried this:
>>
>> [root at dia ~]# yum install VirtualBox
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> No package VirtualBox available.
>> Nothing to do
>>
>> And I searched for all spelling variations of VirtualBox: there is
>> nothing like that. :(
>>
> Okay, maybe the piece of cake was a little larger than what I remember :-)
> I actually went to http://www.virtualbox.org, downloaded the package for
> Fedora and did a yum localinstall

   which was the correct thing to do as, the last time i looked, there is 
no yum repository for VirtualBox.  perhaps those folks could be convinced 
to set one up, and provide a yum repo file for it?

rday
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