On 6/4/2014 7:06 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:17 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
It's been quite a while since I needed go install VBox: now that I already have the dependencies installed I can just download and install the RPM from Oracle's site whenever VBox notifies me of an update. However, initially I used instructions from If Not True Then False to install VBox. One can see there that you're right; gcc, kernel-devel, etc. are required for compiling the kernel modules. So, yes, there's certainly scope there to make VBox installation far easier than it currently is.
openSUSE and Debian both have VirtualBox in their FLOSS repos (though it looks like Debian has removed a few files). Is there a particular reason Fedora does not, or is it just that it hasn't been packaged? I've Googled this a few times but found no explanation.
Here is my openSUSE-Education 1.3.1 with VirtualBox:
Virtualbox 4.2.18_OSE r88780 with installed extensions (Oracle) 4.2.18-88780 in openSUSE 13.1 1024 / 2 CPU / bridged networking
works with f21(rawhide) boot.iso and workstation-live-x86_64