Need Help With VirtualBox

[sli77]

first i would like to say this is one awesome forum there is so much great info and the people here realy know there stuff well for me im new to fedora8 x64 but i like it alot.i installed it on a new hd i bought and works great exept i have one problem,i cant dual boot xp and i cant format to xp and i read that since i put fedora on my new hd first that im going to run into some problems with formats.so i decided instead i would just like to install a virtualbox and use xp when i need it for certain things until i get more use to fedora.i have no idea how to do this and im real new to the commands and terminal things so any help will be fantastic.a step by step would realy help me out alot guys n gals,thank you for taking the time to read this and i hope i can get this going with out to much of a strugle.

[bob]

Moved to General Support and changed title to reflect the question on VirtualBox

Also, have you noticed this in the Guides and How-To Forum? http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=172778 It should give you a lot of info.

[sli77]

how do i get in sudoer so i can try and install xp on virtualbox i just cant figure out what to put in the terminal

[bob]

Here's one way: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...a-f8.html#sudo

[sli77]

posting links does not help me,i tried that with no luck.i guess im a slow learner and dont understand alot of the code to paste.could someone please tell me what to paste please and thank you.i realy appreciate any help and time for helping

[forkbomb]

You don't need to be a sudoer to install stuff on Fedora. Just log in with

su -

SendDerek's guide will work, but instead of using sudo just log in as root. So instead of running, as he suggests, "sudo yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel" you'd run

su -
yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel

Whenever that guide mentions sudo, just log in as root instead (su -) and run the command without sudo.

That guide should work, but I should mention there is now a newer version (1.5.6) than what that guide is for (1.5.4). Tiny difference - shouldn't mean much at all.

[sli77]

thank you for that,this is what i got when doing that


Total download size: 4.9 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
package kernel-devel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64) is already installed
package kernel-devel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64) is already installed

Error Summary
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[A.Serbinski]

Its MUCH MUCH easier than you're all making it. Virtualbox comes as an RPM. Download it, CLICK on it, enter the root password, let it deal with its dependencies and install the program.

Then you just have to make sure that your user is in the virtualbox group - System --> Administration --> Users and Groups. Under the users tab, select your user, hit properties, choose the "Groups" tab, scroll down until you find vboxusers, check it, press OK, exit user manager, log out, log back in.

Done.

[sli77]

i thought i need to install xp using the xp cd onto it since i have fedora8 on here now i want xp as virtual to run some programs.im so lost right now :/

[A.Serbinski]

If you're lost now, then I suggest that the best thing would be to read up on USING virtualbox.