Installing VirtualBox 1.6.0 in Fedora 9

This article will show you how to install VirtualBox 1.6.0 in Fedora 9 (or other versions) and how to reconfigure it after a kernel update.

1. Download the Fedora 9 RPM for your architecture from here.
2. Install the RPM and then install gcc, make, kernel-headers and kernel-devel.
3. Make sure you have all updates installed.
4. Add yourself to the vboxusers group or just add read/write permissions to "/dev/vboxdrv".
   
5. Open a terminal and run the following command:

su -c "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup"

Run step 5 again after a kernel update. Unlike Ubuntu, the USB support in virtual machines is preconfigured and works without errors.

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openSuSE 11.0 Beta

I've tested out the openSuSE 11.0 beta GNOME and it has many improvements over previous releases.

• The beta 0 and beta 1 versions didn't work at all in a VM or native.
• The beta 2 worked in a VM but not native.
• The beta 3 worked both ways.

It all looked smooth and very polished and simple except for a severe bug when just after installing (native) it crashed before the boot loader was installed so my system was not functional any more. I re-installed Fedora and my system was good again.

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Fedora 9 (Sulphur) has been released

Fedora 9 is now what I run on my laptop and it runs great.

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was a let down

The new Ubuntu release was a slight let down for me as it was very buggy.

The final release was even buggier than the Beta!!!

The bugs I found were on my fathers HP laptop it would crash whenever clicking on the Date/Time applet. (A fix has been released in the updates)

On my laptop it would crash when I tried to play a video.

I ended up changing to Fedora 9 which is great and has none of these bugs.

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