Pages

Showing posts with label oracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oracle. Show all posts

23 August, 2012

Installing VirtualBox on Fedora 17

Great part of this guide is just copy of this awesome guide. I am just leaving here a script:
## Fedora 17/16/15/14/13/12 users
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
mv ./virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
yum update

echo "consider reboot if kernel has been updated"

yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

#we don't want to install vbox from rpm-fusion
yum --disablerepo "*" --enablerepo "virtualbox" install VirtualBox

#change user most likely usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER

yum install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
Script that checks if your installed kernel-headers match your kernel
module="kernel-headers"
if [ $(rpm -q kernel-headers) == $module-$(uname -r) ];
then
    echo 'headers are equal';
else
    echo "headers are not equal:";
    echo "> rpm -q: $(rpm -q kernel-headers)"
    echo "> uname -r: $module-$(uname -r)"
fi