{"id":83,"date":"2011-03-30T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.22\/index.php\/2011\/03\/30\/installing-virtualbox-on-fedora-12\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:01:53","slug":"installing-virtualbox-on-fedora-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Installing VirtualBox on Fedora 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1) open up \\etc\\yum.repos.d<br \/>\n2) make a file called virtualbox.repo<br \/>\n3) paste into it:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[virtualbox]\nname=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox\nbaseurl=http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/rpm\/fedora\/$releasever\/$basearch\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian\/oracle_vbox.asc\n<\/span>\n<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">4) Save and close<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">5) rpm &#8211;import oracle_vbox.asc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">6) install ONE of the dependency<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<pre>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: small;\">yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers\n&nbsp;## PAE kernel users install ##\nyum install gcc kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers<\/span>\n&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">7) yum list VirtualBox*<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">8) yum install VirtualBox-XXXXX<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">9)Add VirualBox user to vboxusers group<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<pre>\n<pre>usermod -a -G vboxusers user_name\n<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">10) VirtualBox (to start it)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) open up \\etc\\yum.repos.d 2) make a file called virtualbox.repo 3) paste into it: [virtualbox] name=Fedora $releasever &#8211; $basearch &#8211; VirtualBox baseurl=http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/rpm\/fedora\/$releasever\/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian\/oracle_vbox.asc 4) Save and close 5) rpm &#8211;import oracle_vbox.asc 6) install ONE of the dependency yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers &nbsp;## PAE kernel users install ## yum install gcc kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-figured-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}