On Friday 20 March 2009 17:18:21 Paul W. Frields wrote: > 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' Thanks Paul, I have also been looking for an alternative to VirtualBox, it being non-free has been bothering me a lot! -- Armin Moradi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
