Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Install VirtualBox 7.0.10 on Fedora 38 WKS (kernel 6.4.3)

Coming three months after VirtualBox 7.0.8, the new release adds initial support for the Linux 6.4 kernel series for both guests and hosts, initial support for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel series only for hosts

Proceed as follows per official Oracle's instructions

$ sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" -y

$ sudo dnf install kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms elfutils-libelf-devel qt5-qtx11extras

$ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

[virtualbox]

name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox

baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

repo_gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc

:wq

$ sudo dnf update

$ cd Downloads

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Download RPM for Fedora 38 from  https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

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$ sudo dnf install VirtualBox-7.0-7.0.10_158379_fedora36-1.x86_64.rpm

$ sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER

[sudo] password for boris: 

$ newgrp vboxusers

$ id $USER

uid=1000(boris) gid=1000(boris) groups=1000(boris),10(wheel),976(vboxusers)





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Fedora 38 WKS (kernel 6.4.3) as Host and Vbox 7.0.10 running same F38 WKS with 6.4.3 kernel as  Guest









































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