Comments on: How To: Install VirtualBox 3 on Fedora 12 [Tutorial]

By: Hector

Hector — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:57:39 +0000

Dereck I follow your instruction with Myki sugection and virtualbox is running nicely. Thank you both.

Hector

By: azure

azure — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:07:59 +0000

To get USB working, you must add the following to /etc/fstab

#VirtualBox USB – 122 is the gid of vboxusers group
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=122,devmode=664 0 0

and make sure your user is in the vboxusers group

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:41:17 +0000

Yeah I was having trouble with this even with your walk through but this worked perfect for me and after I installed gcc VBox works great!!! Thanks!

By: biscuits

biscuits — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:17:48 +0000

Almost all of my usb devices are greyed out in xp under vbox. what to do?

By: Noman

Noman — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:48:04 +0000

Thanks for the write-up! Worked great. One thing that needs a last little bit of love: step 4 says ‘If you’re having issues here, try installing “kernel-PAE-devel”’. Shouldn’t this be the *-devel package for whichever kernel you’re running? Also, if you’ve updated your kernel recently be sure you’ve rebooted before doing this step so that the running kernel and the source files are in sync.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:59:27 +0000

hello, it worked flawless on fresh installed fedora 12, on nforce shipset…
gr8 work…..butt i hade to much problems getting it to work on fedora 9 with too much packages installed!
..any way 10x 4 the post

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:17:14 +0000

For Version 3.1 just use
»yum install -y VirtualBox-3.1 dkms gcc«

(using of upper case letters is importent with yum)

By: dvz-

dvz- — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:12:27 +0000

sure thing…as for the fixed code…

you can keep the chcon -t … while the user is still in as root.

but don’t forget to specify the `exit` command to get out of su -, otherwise users may still think that all is well when they follow your commands exactly, then have questions when something doesn’t work.

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:20:05 +0000

Wow. Can’t believe I missed that one. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: dvz-

dvz- — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:14:30 +0000

Thanks for the post. Only thing to change:

usermod -G vboxusers -a `whoami`

^^we’re assumed that we’re still logged in as root from su -
=> `whoami` returns ‘root’…

move this line above the “VirtualBox” call, preceded by “exit.”

# exit
$ sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a `whoami`
$ VirtualBox