On 07/25/2013 11:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com> wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>> I've heard there were issues with Win 8 on Virtualbox in linux, but I
>> haven't tried it myself
>
> I also have a Win8 VM and it's OK. There's an issue where the screen
> doesn't get refreshed properly -- I have to press the Windows flag key
> to get it to redisplay itself. (This PC came with Win8, so I
> virtualized it before blowing it away to install Fedora. The XP VM is
> from this PC's predecessor.)
>
> --
> -- Steve
I did a <sudo yum install> obviously without the braces shown here and
after install received the following error in /var/log:
Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
Where is the kernel? Shouldn't the install have known?
As Rick points you, install kernel-devel so VirtualBox can compile its
kernel modules. Also, install DKMS.
Here's the whole shebang, including setting the VirtualBox repo so you
can use USB stuff: (watch out for line wrapping)
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.2 kernel-devel dkms kernel-headers
Once VirtualBox is installed, go to
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download the extension
pack. This gives you the means to connect USB devices. It's installed
via FILE -> PREFERENCES -> EXTENSIONS inside the VirtualBox application.
For reasons unknown to me, Virtual Box is added to the SYSTEMS menu.
--
-- Steve