KVM x VirtualBox

Johan Scheepers johansche at telkomsa.net
Mon May 30 19:40:42 UTC 2011


On 30/05/2011 20:46, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 15:41,<fernando at lozano.eti.br>  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


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