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Instalando VirtualBox en Fedora 10 « Japega blog blog… — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:42:32 +0000

[...] me ayudara a hacerlo. Fue así que encontré el blog en Derek Hildreth’s Blog el post titulado How To: Install VirtualBox on Fedora 10 [Tutorial], el cual me ayudó muchísimo. Seguí sus instrucciones, pero con una variante. En lugar de [...]

By: Auzieman

Auzieman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:40:19 +0000

Thank you for your write up, I was about to loose my marbles trying to figure out why vbox 3 was still not seeing my darn iphone via usb.. /sys.. . .that was the magic missing bit..

You would think who ever packages the rpms would add that to the install scripts..

Thank you!!!

By: K1

K1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:00:17 +0000

I’m new in linux, Could you please tell me what do you exactly mean by:
(ie. “export” KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.23.1-42.fc8-i686)

I have found my kernel address, but I dunno what to do with that!

By: tkep1008

tkep1008 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:59:47 +0000

* I ran into this site and had usb issues. I did not create a usb users group as there was a vboxusers group already included. in GUI go to System > Administration > Users and Groups

*Write down or remember what Group ID vboxusers has, in my case it was 501
Group = Group ID
vboxusers = 501

* if your own username is currently not part of vboxusers make sure it is added (i will skip these steps considering that Virtualbox will not run at all if you arent in that group)

* unmount the usbfs
sudo umount /proc/bus/usb/

* if an error comes up when you try to unmount, reboot the system

* open up the /etc/fstab
sudo vi /etc/fstab

* Enter the following (if 501 is your vboxusers Group ID)
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=501,devmode=664 0 0

* Save and exit the file

* As long as the umount command worked, then mount all that is in the /etc/fstab
sudo mount -a

* Open up VirtualBox and add USB devices to your guest, and reboot or start a new guest system

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:40:30 +0000

when I run the command “usermod -G vboxusers -a samuel chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so”, I get the following error:

usermod: user /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so does not exist

what should I do? I am not use to linux

By: erasmo

erasmo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:04:55 +0000

Instala:
yum install VirtualBox-OSE-kmodsrc.i386

By: Dirtyl3um

Dirtyl3um — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:32:19 +0000

I would like to add that you need to make sure your kernel is up to date before you do this, so do a system update and get the latest devel for the kernel, install all then reboot and run the setup :-D

just took 30 minutes for me to figure out that i had the old evel and was running an newer kernel

By: darin

darin — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:50:41 +0000

fs111’s point about the PAE kernel was a HUGE hint. I didn’t even realize I had the PAE kernel installed. I had to run the following command before the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup step would succeed on my Fedora 10 host:
# ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.PAE /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.PAE/build

Obviously replace the version numbers with those specific to your kernel. Enjoy.

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:18:08 +0000

That was completely unexpected and yet, incredibly awesome to hear! Thank you!

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:16:32 +0000

Honestly, I kinda freak out when it comes to kernel building. I haven’t started to tread that water yet. Good luck to you!