2009/3/20 Paul W. Frields <sticks...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:21:24PM -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: >> I'm trying to do some virtualization testing and I wanted to see >> Virtual Box that everybody is talking alot about. The thing is that I >> can't find the virtualbox packages in the fedora repository. Does it >> have some strange name? > > VirtualBox is free as in free beer, but it's not entirely free as in > free speech. Its license prohibits some use, meaning it can't be free > software. (One of the key freedoms of free software is the freedom to > use it for any purpose.) That's why we don't carry it in Fedora.
Yes, but what is exactly the virtualbox-ose that Debian has in there distribution? >From a Debian geek that uses virtualbox I heard that the version that comes with Debian is free software, but isn't the same version you download from SUN. Is this false? > > I'm surprised that more people don't just install the "Virtualization" > group using yum, and use the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) to > create virtual machines. I do this all the time on my Fedora 10 box > and it works like a charm. > > su -c 'yum groupinstall Virtualization ; service libvirtd start' I'm going to try this now. > Then run Applications > System Tools > Virtual Machine Manager. I bet this is the Gnome menu. :-D I'm a KDE guy. Don't worry I'll open it OK. :-) -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
