[CentOS] Virtualbox on CentOS 7

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Am Samstag, den 12.07.2014 um 12:11 -0700 schrieb Greg Bailey:
> > On 07/12/2014 12:02 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 07:55:52PM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> > >> Hi there,
> > >>
> > >> because I just noticed that there is still no RPM package for RHEL 7/
> > >> CentOS 7 for Virtualbox .... what is the safest and cleanest way to
> > >> install Virtualbox on CentOS 7? Has anyone already done and can make a
> > >> recommendation?
> > > I always just download it from virtualbox.org, also making sure to
> > > get the extensions package for the same veresion, also from
> > > virtualbox.org.
> > >
> > > they offer binaries for all the "big" linux versions, inncluding .RPM
> > > for RHEL/Oracle Linux, and you would use that one for Centos.
> > >
> > > What they don't have yet, is the "guest additions" for EL7. I assume
> > > that will become available when Oralce Linux 7 becomes available.
> > >
> > 
> > The guest additions should be available soon.  There's an RC of 4.3.14 
> > available, and so far the video driver support for an EL7 guest seems to 
> > work OK for me.
> > 
> > More info at:
> > 
> > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=62506
> > 
> 
> thank you both for the advice. Can you tell me where exactly they have
> got the appropriate RPMs to CentOS 7 from?
> 
> The closest I can find in under
> 
> 	https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
> 
> but the RPMs for Enterprise Linux are only available for the 6 Series.

Ah, I think I misunderstood. So far my vbox/Centos-7 experiments have
been using Centos-6 (or Win-7) as the host and C-7 as the guest.


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