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By: linuxNoob

linuxNoob — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:05:20 +0000

Thanx for the nice Tutorial…M getting teh same error as “been”
I ‘ve tried googling and found that uninstalling and reinstalling works like a charm. Can nyone please tell me how to uninstall and reinstall the kernel-devel and kernel -source or whatever we have to uninst and reinst..m running FC9 on 32bit machine and on fluxbox WM. Plz help me .Thanks in apprcn.

By: Askar Khan

Askar Khan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:31:40 +0000

Nice howto, it took me only few minutes to install virtualbox on Fedora 9 and running M$ XP as guest OS by following this nice and clean howto.

By: J2

J2 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:59:35 +0000

I followed all the steps and it will only let me run the program as root…When I try as a user it poops on me…

[J2@localhost ~]$ VirtualBox
Cannot create/open directory ‘/tmp/.vbox-J2-ipc/ipcd’
Abnormal termination.

any thoughts?

________
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:15:49 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:51:47 +0000

Great tutorial.

please add that for 64bits Fedora8 you need a different version of Virtualbox.

I used VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora8-1.x86_64.rpm

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:14:02 +0000

Great how to. Unfortunately, I learnt these steps the hard way, but you list everything I figured out myself. Well done.

The only issue I’ve had that few tutorials cover are the networking problems. For some reason, it’s a common problem for the guest OS to not have any internet connection. My current setup’s not perfect, but I finally figured out how to enable the internet connection by giving my guest OS the same MAC address as the host.

Another issue I’ve had is VB does a poor job of capturing certain key presses. For instance, pressing the Windows key won’t activate the start menu in a Windows guest OS.

By: cronaldo

cronaldo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:48:33 +0000

thanks for the tutorial!

however, the virtualbox kernel module was not recompiling…

Then I upgraded my kernel to the latest version, performed your instructions again, and it worked perfectly.

cheers!

By: sendderek

sendderek — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:33:38 +0000

@dubb:
Installing it using “sudo” is the same thing as installing it using “su -”. You have nothing to worry about!