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Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On A Fedora 11 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a Fedora 11 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show how to set up VirtualBox 3.0 from the precompiled binaries.
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Isn't the Fedora version lacking in USB support - ie it is the OSE or Open Source Edition? The one offered by the autoten install script is the Closed Source Edition? I think if you want to attach USB devices to your virtual machine you will need to swallow your pride and use the Close Source Edition. Correct me if I am wrong. See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions for a comparison of editions.
What's the advantage of VirtualBox over the qemu-kvm based Virtual Machine Manager that is part of Fedora 11?
VirtualBox is a noticeably faster than KVM and VirtualBox will run fast on modern chips that don't support hardware virtualization, such as older Core2Duos with VT removed rebranded as Pentiums. Even on systems that support VT VirtualBox is faster.
VirtualBox also has much better sound and video support.
Finally, the closed source version of Virtual Box supports USB which is very handy
However, this article leaves out the fact that USB support will not work by default in Fedora 11. You first have to comment-out the usbfs lines from /etc/sysinit, add your user to the vbox users group, and then modify your fstab to allow for rw access to portions of /proc. The details can be found with some googling.
A much easier way of installing VirtualBox on Fedora 11 is to simply install it from the RPMFusion repo.
1. Follow the steps here to install the repo http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration if you don't already have this repo enabled.
2) As root type, yum install VirtualBox-OSE
3) Restart your system so the kernel modules load.
4) VirtualBox is now ready to use.
Currently only version 2.2.4 is offered, 3.0/3.0.2 is in testing. The advantage of using it from the repo is you don't have to bother with recompiling the kernel modules when you receive a kernel update.
Install by using autoten from http://dnmouse.org/autoten.html. Much easier and you can let it do some other stuff while you are there.
Not bad, but good documentation doesn't mean lots of screenshots, it means appropriate screenshots...
Then write one yourself with more words, genius.