2009/3/20 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:21:24PM -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: >> I'm trying to do some virtualization testing and I wanted to see >> Virtual Box that everybody is talking alot about. The thing is that I >> can't find the virtualbox packages in the fedora repository. Does it >> have some strange name? > > VirtualBox is free as in free beer, but it's not entirely free as in > free speech. Its license prohibits some use, meaning it can't be free > software. (One of the key freedoms of free software is the freedom to > use it for any purpose.) That's why we don't carry it in Fedora. > > I'm surprised that more people don't just install the "Virtualization" > group using yum, and use the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) to > create virtual machines. I do this all the time on my Fedora 10 box > and it works like a charm. > > su -c 'yum groupinstall Virtualization ; service libvirtd start' > > Then run Applications > System Tools > Virtual Machine Manager. > > To install from a CD or DVD ISO image that you have on your hard disk, > make sure you set its SELinux context properly: > > su -c 'chcon -t virt_image_t /path/to/some-os-image.iso' ____ That's just how I do it. I've installed a WinXp VM in my F10 box. KVM and QEMU work just fine. I think VirtualBox may be preferred because it appears more manageable in the surface. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
