Thursday 23 February 2012

How to install the Latest virtualbox and keep it up to date| Fedora-Centos-Opensource


Question: How to download  the  Last virtualbox and  keep  it update to the  last release in Fedora/Centos/Opensuse?

-1- First cd the yum repo and download the repo:
cd  /etc/yum.repo.d
For Openuse:
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.4/virtualbox.repo
For Centos/RHEL.Scientic Linux
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
For Fedora :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
2- Now update and Install
Fedora/Centos/SL/ :  
yum  update
Opensuse  :
 Zypper up
Installation :
- Fedora/Centos/RHEL

 yum install VirtualBox-4.1
- Opensuse
 zypper in VirtualBox-4.1 
3- Rebuild kernel modules with following command:
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Or service vboxdrv setup
add the users to vboxusers group usernmod -a -G vboxusers myusername Enjoy 

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