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@charter.net> 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 -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org