Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1945 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/12/09 03:48, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> On 12/29/2009 09:17 AM, Rodney Baker pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:08:03 Clayton wrote:
> >     
> > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:58, Rajko M. <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On Monday 28 December 2009 23:22:52 Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > I just had a look at the instructions at
> > > > >
> > > > > http://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox_Installation
> > > > >
> > > > > but they refer to earlier versions of openSUSE.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are the instructions shown at this URL still relevant to 11.2 (and its
> > > > > kernel)?
> > > > >           
> > > > It is all the same for 11.2 as it was for 10.3, but you are right, it
> > > > needs update.
> > > >         
> > > It is?  I'd say that for at least the downloaded RPM it's not the same...
> > >
> > > I've installed it this way:
> > > 1. Download the VirtualBox RPM from the virtualbox.org website
> > > 2. zypper install <vbox RPM>
> > > 3. Add my user to the vboxusers group
> > > 4. Log out/log in
> > >
> > > That's it.  USB works.. everything works.  No messing with fstab
> > >
> > > C.
> > >
> > >       
> > I didn't use the RPM version - I downloaded the generic installer, ran the 
> > script (as root), it compiled the modules to suit my running (custom) kernel 
> > and worked without any further intervention.
> >
> > Every 7 days or so it checks for an update and if it finds one it prompts me 
> > to download and install it (which is done exactly the same way).
> >
> > OK, so zypper/Yast don't know about it but they also don't try to update it 
> > :-). If I update the kernel, I just have to re-run a script that is provided 
> > (can't remember the exact one, but the "failed to load module" message at 
> > boot 
> > tells me anyway) to recompile the kernel modules against the new kernel.
> >
> > All in all, I found that to be the most painless way to do it.
> >     
> Or you can add the SUN site repo, give a higher priority and install
> that way. Then when SUN releases a newer version you can install it but
> simply using   zypper up
>   
An excellent suggestion! One new entry in the repos coming up :-)

BC

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