Installing VirtualBox on Fedora 8 HowTo

by kjs — last modified Sep 03, 2011 06:21 PM

— filed under: Server Solutions

HowTo install VirtualBox on Fedora core 8, however this should work on other versions.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

Fedora Core 8 (tested however it should work on other versions).

Requirements

Explanation of requirements.

You have a working Fedora install with X setup
You know how to enter commands at a console

Download VirtualBox

Open http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads in your web browser and download the latest version of VirtualBox for your Fedora version and architecture.

In this guide we will be installing on a i686 architecture running Fedora 8, working for an IT Support company VirtualBox is a very useful tool for testing and building server images.

Install VirtualBox

Install the rpm package:

su -c 'rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora8-1.i586.rpm'

Install the needed packages in order to install the VirtualBox driver:
```
su -c 'yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel'
```
Install the VirtualBox kernel module with:
```
su -c '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
```
Login as root:
```
su - 
```

Add your self to the vboxusers group:

usermod -G vboxusers -a username && exit

Logout and log back in of your gnome session
VirtualBox should now appear in your "Applications" menu under "System Tools"

Notes

After I had upgraded my kernel with yum I had to redo step 3 to rebuild the kernel modules for VirtualBox.

More Info

More info can be found on using VirtualBox at http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Documentation

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions my nick is kjs. I also run an IT Support company that provides support for small companies, and yes we support Linux :)

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