On 07/25/2013 11:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern > <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: >>> I've heard there were issues with Win 8 on Virtualbox in linux, but I >>> haven't tried it myself >> >> I also have a Win8 VM and it's OK. There's an issue where the screen >> doesn't get refreshed properly -- I have to press the Windows flag key >> to get it to redisplay itself. (This PC came with Win8, so I >> virtualized it before blowing it away to install Fedora. The XP VM is >> from this PC's predecessor.) >> >> -- >> -- Steve > > > I did a <sudo yum install> obviously without the braces shown here and > after install received the following error in /var/log: > > Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current > Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. > > Where is the kernel? Shouldn't the install have known? > As Rick points you, install kernel-devel so VirtualBox can compile its kernel modules. Also, install DKMS. Here's the whole shebang, including setting the VirtualBox repo so you can use USB stuff: (watch out for line wrapping) cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.2 kernel-devel dkms kernel-headers Once VirtualBox is installed, go to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download the extension pack. This gives you the means to connect USB devices. It's installed via FILE -> PREFERENCES -> EXTENSIONS inside the VirtualBox application. For reasons unknown to me, Virtual Box is added to the SYSTEMS menu. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
