On 13/06/14 18:57, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Ahmad Samir
<ahmadsamir3891(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> AFAICS, the RpmFusion package uses akmod not DKMS to build the kernel
> module(s).
>
> With kmod you have two options either install kmod-VirtualBox which has
> pre-built kernel modules in which case you'll have to wait for the package
> to get updated to get the modules for the updated kernel; or install
> akmod-VirtualBox which should build the module at boot, of course the build
> can fail and require a patch... etc.
>
> --
> Ahmad Samir
I haven't had any problems with the Oracle supplied VirtualBox for a
few months. The one from RPMFusion kept lagging behind; yum would
upgrade to latest kernel irrespective of if VirtualBox's dependencies
are met or not.
I am not with or against using the package from upstream; but you could
remove kmod-VirtualBox and install akmod-VirtualBox and that one doesn't
depend of a specific kernel version as it's supposed to build the kernel
modules automatically for a new kernel.
--
Ahmad Samir