Virtualbox

Version 4.2 of VirtualBox was released two days ago (so far for Linux only). Download it from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads Probably not important, but I’m using Fedora 16 for the moment, and since I was running VirtualBox 4.1 I had to remove the previous package first and install the 4.2 version. This will not destroy the guest hosts. rpm -e VirtualBox-4.1 rpm -ip VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.0_80737_fedora16-1.x86_64.rpm After a new start with the VirtualBox Manager the old VM guests are in place.

This is what I did to install Oracle VM VirtualBox on a new Fedora 15 installation. The documentation at the bottom of download page VirtualBox for Linux gives you the repos-file for yum on Fedora. Find the repos-file and save it to /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo, it should look like this: \[virtualbox\] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc Then you can search for VirtualBox: \[root@favela ~\]# yum search VirtualBox Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit \=========================== N/S Matched: VirtualBox ============================ VirtualBox-4.0.x86_64 : Oracle VM VirtualBox Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything. To install: ...