{"id":2211,"date":"2014-08-19T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2022-12-11T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T21:04:19","slug":"fedora-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/fedora-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need another Red Hat look alike and chose Fedora. My target is Virtual Box on Windows 8.1.<\/p>\n

So remember,<\/p>\n

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  1. Install from Live CD, reboot<\/li>\n
  2. yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel<\/li>\n
  3. yum update<\/li>\n
  4. reboot<\/li>\n
  5. install guest additions, if that fails
    \nset & export KERN_DIR, for Fedora it’ll be in \/usr\/src\/kernel, check that the source agrees with the running kernel version using ls \/usr\/src\/kernel<\/code> & uname -a<\/code> and run it from the command line<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I found this page<\/a> at forums.virtual.box and this page<\/a> at ‘if not true then false’, which talks about what to do in the case that the Kernel Source can’t be found. (see the comments about the KERN_DIR environment variable above).<\/p>\n

    Ubuntu now offers the Virtual Guest additions as a package, and\u00a0page at the fedora project<\/a> the fedora project suggests that this is available for Fedora, even if one has to add the rpmfusion <\/a>repo to the sources.list.\u00a0Managing Yum Repositories <\/a>from the Sysadmin documentation describes how to add and enable repos to Fedora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I need another Red Hat look alike and chose Fedora. My target is Virtual Box on Windows 8.1. So remember, Install from Live CD, reboot yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel yum update reboot install guest additions, if that fails set & export KERN_DIR, for Fedora it’ll be in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8,3,7],"tags":[365,916,911,11],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","category-virtualisation","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-technology","tag-virtual-box"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}