Opened 14 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#814 closed enhancement (fixed)
Difficult to install VirtualBox tools in soas-appliance
| Reported by: | wadeb | Owned by: | sdz |
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| Priority: | Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: | Unspecified |
| Component: | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) | Version: | Unspecified |
| Severity: | Unspecified | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Distribution/OS: | Unspecified | |
| Bug Status: | Resolved |
Description
There are some big hurdles here.
First, you have to manually mount /dev/dvd to /media as the normal Fedora auto mounting is not activating for some reason.
Then, you have to install gcc, make and kernel-devel. But with the latest appliance, kernel-devel brings in a newer version of the headers than what is installed in the appliance.
So, you have to yum update kernel to get the new kernel.
Finally, you have to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot the new kernel.
Is there any way we could make this easier? How far off is pre-installing the VirtualBox tools? It currently adds an hour or so each time you want to check out a new appliance snapshot, even without the above issues.
BTW, recent appliance snapshots are working great generally, great work!
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by sdz
- Bug Status changed from Unconfirmed to Resolved
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
I heard there was some progress here lately. Looks like this can be closed. Thanks Wade for taking on this one! :)