F20 in VirtualBox VM

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Sun Dec 22 04:41:59 UTC 2013


On 12/21/2013 09:54 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:43 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 12/20/2013 11:28 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> 
>>> my  question: When creating the new VM in VBox Manager, did you choose
>>> the correct version of Fedora? I clicked on "Fedora" and I missed that
>>> there was an entry "Fedora (64bit)" ...
>>>
>> It worked for me when I selected "Red Hat (64 bit)" as the OS type.
> 
> Something may be more fundamentally wrong than I thought. I don't see
> "64 bit" as a choice anywhere in Vbox Manager. When I look at the
> settings for the VM, I can't find anywhere that tells me if it's 32 bit
> or 64 bit. 
> 
> I did check, and the VirtualBox RPM does say it's x86_64. I did get an
> F20 VM installed in KVM, but it's so slow that it's worthless.
> 
> The host machine is a quad core Haswell (i7) so I believe it has the
> necessary hardware virtualization stuff, and it's turned on in the BIOS.
> 
> --Greg
> 
> 

Which repo is your virtualbox from? I'm using the one from the Oracle
repo at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads,
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
-- 
-- Steve


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