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[Steven Stern]

On 07/25/2013 11:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
>> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>>> I've heard there were issues with Win 8 on Virtualbox in linux, but I
>>> haven't tried it myself
>>
>> I also have a Win8 VM and it's OK.  There's an issue where the screen
>> doesn't get refreshed properly -- I have to press the Windows flag key
>> to get it to redisplay itself.  (This PC came with Win8, so I
>> virtualized it before blowing it away to install Fedora.  The XP VM is
>> from this PC's predecessor.)
>>
>> --
>> -- Steve
> 
> 
> I did a <sudo yum install> obviously without the braces shown here and
> after install received the following error in /var/log:
> 
> Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
> Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
> 
> Where is the kernel? Shouldn't the install have known?
> 

As Rick points you, install kernel-devel so VirtualBox can compile its
kernel modules.  Also, install DKMS.

Here's the whole shebang, including setting the VirtualBox repo so you
can use USB stuff:  (watch out for line wrapping)

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.2 kernel-devel dkms kernel-headers

Once VirtualBox is installed, go to
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download the extension
pack. This gives you the means to connect USB devices.  It's installed
via FILE -> PREFERENCES -> EXTENSIONS inside the VirtualBox application.
 For reasons unknown to me, Virtual Box is added to the SYSTEMS menu.



-- 
-- Steve