Hi Joe,

On Wednesday 13 May 2015 13:52:31 jd1008 wrote:
> > VirtualBox 4.3.28 is built in a Fedora 18 chroot. We have tested this
> > package works well in Fedora 21. This is also stated on the download
> > page and there is also a Fedora 21 repository containing that package.
> > The repository is not yet up-to-date, this will finish during the next
> > hour. Once Fedora 22 is released we will test VirtualBox on this Linux
> > distribution and then decide if we need to set up a F22 chroot or if
> > the F18 chroot will still make it.
> 
> [...]
>
> Thank you Dr. Mehnert.

Just 'Frank' :-)

> I thought that every Fedora kernel is compiled to only accept
> modules that were compiled for the specific kernel version
> of the Fedora release version.
> So, how could the fc18 VB modules be accepted by the fc21 or
> fc22 kernels?

the packages don't ship kernel modules. The setup script of the package
will automatically build the kernel module from the sources. This
requires to have the kernel-devel package installed (and gcc+make of
course). Shipping the modules would not be possible anyway because Fedora
usually changes the kernel version during its life.

Frank
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