Greg Bailey wrote:

Karanbir Singh wrote:

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Greg Bailey wrote:

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I have some RPMs I've made of innotek's VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition) for both CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 (i386). These RPMs include the dkms support for the kernel driver, etc. I have a couple of subtle things to fix in the RPMs (like setting the permissions on udev devices, etc.) but they're already usable. Before I spend more time on it, and submit it for inclusion in the "testing" repo, I thought I'd ask here if someone was already working on doing this.

Just off the top of my head, I would say - please post the specs here :)

OK, I've thrown some information up on a website (including the spec):

http://www.lxpro.com/virtualbox/

Look forward to feedback (and help with those RPM macros!) :-)

thanks, Greg

I've rebuild the RPMs with VirtualBox 1.5.2 OSE for both CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 (i386). The RPMS, SRPMS, and .spec files are available at:

http://www.lxpro.com/virtualbox/

thanks, Greg

Daniel de Kok wrote:

Hi Greg,

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:08 -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:

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I've rebuild the RPMs with VirtualBox 1.5.2 OSE for both CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 (i386). The RPMS, SRPMS, and .spec files are available at:

http://www.lxpro.com/virtualbox/

I completely forgot to look at your packages. Did you get around to writing the udev rules? I'll try to go over this this week, because I think it would be useful to get VirtualBox into extras or plus eventually.

-- Daniel

I think I got the udev rules worked out. My permissions let any user start a virtual machine; the closed source RPM from innotek requires the user to be a member of a specific group to start virtual machines (by having file permissions of 0660 on the device file). I suppose good arguments could be made for doing it either way.

-Greg