mohamed

How to install Virtualbox on Fedora 8

Saturday, 23. February 2008, 17:58:16

This is a tutorial on how to get VirtualBox up and running on Fedora 8. Also, this tutorial is for the 32-Bit version of VirtualBox

1-Get the VirtualBox package from the VirtualBox website for Fedora 8

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

2-Get the kernel-devel package:

yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel

3-install VirtualBox

rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora8-1.i586.rpm

4-Run the setup file for VirtualBox

 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

5-Add yourself to the “vboxusers” group

su -
usermod -G vboxusers -a username
exit

6-Run, and enjoy!

VirtualBox

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Comments

mohamed # 6. April 2008, 23:52

thanks

Anonymous # 7. October 2008, 08:03

Anonymous writes:

please help, I got this error:

[root@localhost opt]# sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

Anonymous # 9. October 2008, 19:20

nuk writes:

@anonymous

I had the same problem (on a Fedora 8 after kernel update). The solution: install a recent version of VirtualBox. VirtualBox 2.0.2 works fine for me.

Have fun.