Hi, think I was confused about what ISO to use. Do you mind linking one for the latest release as an example?
On Sep 30, 2012, at 6:43 PM, "Herb Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-09-28 8:36 PM, McCormick, Jeremy I. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been attempting to install SL6 in VirtualBox today, but I’m not >> having much luck.I’m running the VB app on Windows XP, i386. > > What specific problems are you having? I've been running SL in > VirtualBox on XP for years, and more recently on Win 7. VirtualBox will > even let you run 64 bit SL as a guest OS on a 32 bit XP host. > > Just use the same install ISO images that you would use for an install > on real hardware. > > >> I would prefer to run VB on Linux, actually, and I have access to an >> x86_64 Linux machine.But I ran into some mysterious “dependency hell” >> issues there attempting to install it, whereas the VB app on Windows >> “just worked”.So I’ll try there for the time being. > > I've recently successfully installed VirtualBox on an SL 6.3 host. Going > from memory the key steps are: > # yum install yum-conf-epel > # yum install dkms > # yum install gcc > # yum install make > # yum install kernel-devel > then use yum to install the downloaded VirtualBox rpm.
