Saturday, July 8, 2023

Setting up VirtualBox 7.0.8 on Fedora 38 Server (kernel 6.4.2)

UPDATE as of 07/29/23.  Installing VirtualBox 7.0.10 on a Fedora 38 (kernel 6.4.6) server dated 07/29/23 using akmods && rpmfusion

$ sudo dnf install VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r) akmod-VirtualBox

See https://linuxism.ustd.ip.or.kr/2015#:~:text=akmods%20(similar%20to%20dkms)%20is,a%20new%20kmod%20for%20you. for details

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 Acivate on system following repo $ sudo dnf copr enable  jforbes/kernel-stabilization and upgrade system via

$ sudo dnf update -y

$ koji download-build --arch=x86_64 kernel-6.4.2-201.fc38

$ sudo dnf localinstall kernel-devel-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64.rpm

[boris@ServerFedora38 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel | grep "6.4.2"
kernel-modules-core-6.4.2-200.fc38.x86_64
kernel-core-6.4.2-200.fc38.x86_64
kernel-modules-6.4.2-200.fc38.x86_64
kernel-6.4.2-200.fc38.x86_64
kernel-devel-6.4.2-200.fc38.x86_64
kernel-modules-core-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64
kernel-core-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64
kernel-modules-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64
kernel-devel-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64
kernel-devel-matched-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64
kernel-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64

Now reboot system and setup rpmfusion :-

$ sudo  dnf install  https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm 

$ sudo dnf  install  \   https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

$ sudo dnf install VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r) akmod-VirtualBox

$ sudo akmods

$ sudo systemctl restart vboxdrv 

$ lsmod  | grep -i vbox

[boris@ServerFedora38 ~]$ lsmod | grep -i vbox

vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxnetflt             40960  0
vboxdrv               655360  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

You are ready to perform testing deployment of Ubuntu 23.04 Guest via Virtual Box 7.0.8  under kernel kernel-6.4.2-201.fc38.x86_64







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