Crito Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 What's the best way to upgrade the OSE of VirtBox to the full version? I need the built-in RDP server feature. Currently running the 64-bit edition of 2009.0 PowerPack. Was kind of hoping it would come with the commercial version of VirtualBox, since PowerPack includes other proprietary software, like nVidia drivers. Anywho, VirtualBox website has packages for Mandriva but they're 32-bit only. There's a generic .run file for AMD64 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 1. Uninstall all of the Mandriva vbox* and virtualbox* packages. 2. Install kernel-?-devel-latest corresponding to the kernel "flavour" that you are using. 3. Install the non-OSE version of VirtualBox. (You may have to add your user to the vboxusers group after doing so.) Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crito Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 the kernel-server-devel-latest package was already installed, so I did: su - urpme virtualbox downloaded the generic AMD64 run file cd to the download dir sh ./VirtualBox-package.run it built a kernel module and modprobed it automagically at this point my USB keyboard went haywire but I managed to alt-F1, login as root and issue a shutdown -h now. after cold booting back up everything worked fine. Sun xVM VirtualBox was installed with an icon in same place as before (tools --> emulators) and my previously configured Vista machine was still there too. ;) Guess I'll have to recompile that module manually every time a new kernel comes out... was fairly painless though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 i had installed the ose edition from the repos but wanted the full version, all I had to do was download and install the rpm of the full version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crito Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Unfortunately they only provide 32-bit packages for Mandriva. I'm using PowerPack 64-bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crito Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Would be great if Mandriva just included the full version with PowerPack though. VirtualBox OSE is more appropriate for Mandriva Free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crito Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 FWIW, setting up the non-free version was even easier with the AMD64 .run file from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/...Linux_amd64.run just su - to root cd to the download dir and ./sh the .run file. It does all the rest. And I've never had to manually recompile anything after updating my kernel. http://www.4crito.com/msgbrd/pics/virtbox.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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