On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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Ahmad Samir
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Sorry but my experience is that akmod keeps failing to build modules
for the latest kernel.
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