Upgrading to 10alpha

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 06:46 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:06:05PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Scott Robbins wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have to say I'm impressed with VirtualBox:-(
> > 
> > I downloaded it on my CentOS5 system , and then
> > rpm -ivh ...
> > and too a brief comfort break.
> > Came back to see the grub menu vanish as the system began booting.
> > 
> > VirtualBox didn't start. A quick investigation showed no kernel module and no 
> > magic kernel builder package (not mentioned as a prereq??).
> > "make && make install" in the right directory got the module.
> 
> Great software, poor documentation, especially for RH based systems.  
> 
> If you're not yet disgusted with it, would you please try again after
> doing
> 
> yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ make kernel-devel
> 
> Like many things, it does require the basic build tools.  (I've found
> that the above will almost always pull in everything else I need as
> deps, e.g., kernel-headers.  
> 
> I should put up a quick start guide, and probably will at some point.
> 
> After adding the above programs, if your user name is john, as root or
> with root privilege
> gpasswd -a john vboxusers
> 
> Log out completely as john, log back in, make sure you're a member of
> vboxusers. 
> 
> service vboxdrv setup
> 
> This will take a little while, but even with a relatively slow box,
> probably less than 3 minutes.  You should see that it completed
> successfully, making it unnecessary to do a modprobe.  It will probably
> add the vboxdrv to automatically start upon boot--if that's OK, fine, if
> not then fix it with chkconfig or your tool of choice. 

I've found it's also necessary to do "modprobe -r kvm_intel". VB works
very well and is "lighter" than VMware (whatever that means), however
I've been unable to configure the USB passthrough correctly. The tab is
simply greyed out and can't be selected.

poc