Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Install VirtualBox on Fedora 13

This is a steps tutorial on how to get VirtualBox up and running on Fedora 13.
The folks at VirtualBox have made it easy to install for Fedora users and I’m going to show you how in a few easy steps. Right, open a terminal window and let’s get to it…



      1.
 Become privileged
             su -
  1. Get the VirtualBox repo installed 

    wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo && cp virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/

  2. Install VirtualBox

    yum install -y VirtualBox*
  3. Run the setup file for VirtualBox:

    /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
  4. Run, & Njoy!
    VirtualBox

1 comment:

  1. Haven't you encounter the error related to kernel-headers, the most common error that we get, after installing VirtualBox and before running it.

    Try installing an OS , may be you will come across one.

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