Re: VirtualBox on Fedora 14

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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, S Mathias <smathias1972@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good evening list! :)

I'm searching for two answers regarding two questions. [and there are two "P.S."'s]
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Q1: How can i list all the available kernel modules?
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Q2: I want to install VirtualBox on Fedora 14 [->how could i download the kernel source?]:

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O oracle_vbox.asc
rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc
rm oracle_vbox.asc virtualbox.rpm

Everything OK so far...
 
wget $(wget -q "http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads" -O - | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href="" | awk '/fedora14/ && /686/ {print}') -O virtualbox.rpm
rpm -i virtualbox.rpm

You're making things hard on yourself. Follow this link[1] and setup the yum repository. Then installing is as simple as:

# yum install VirtualBox-3.2

The other packages you need is the kernel headers (not the whole source) and dkms (dynamic kernel module support), i.e.:

# yum install kernel-devel dkms
 

And then, the fun part:

# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

[snip]

Try "service vboxdrv setup" instead. Not really the problem but from what I've read it's a more appropriate method. 
 
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P.S. 1: This is not working [bug on virtualbox.org website? ]:
# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | rpm --import -
error: -: import read failed(-1).
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P.S. 2: When i wanted to install VirtualBox, i tried this [when running in to the kernel source "issue"]:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/20689-donwload-kernel-source-using-yum.html#post549910

But when i'm here:

# yumdownloader -e core-source -e updates-source --source kernel
Usage: "yumdownloader [options] package1 [package2] [package..]

CRITICAL:yum.cli:Command line error: option -e: invalid integer value: 'core-source'

..it gives an error :O so i wanted to:

yum remove rpmdevtools yum-utils

->
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Y8y0YjLG

Is it safe to remove "anaconda"?
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You don't want to just download it, you want to install it. But as I said, you don't need the whole source, just the headers which is provided by the kernel-devel package. 


Thank you in advance! :\ [sorry, i'm a beginner in Fedora :\ ]

No problem! 

Richard

[1] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo 
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