Using Virtualization products with a Fedora Host

[DFyre22]

I am running FC14 as my host OS and am trying to install a virtual environment for academic reasons. I have tried using several different varieties including VMware and VirtualBox, but none of them seem to have any modules for the FC14 kernel. Has anyone had any luck with virtualization with FC14 as the host, that may be able to point me in a viable direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running Fedora 14 on both VirtualBox and VMware Workstation 7.

[DFyre22]

Yeah, Fedora works fine as the guest OS, the problem I am having is installing a virtualization product on a Fedora HOST OS.

What error(s) are you getting?

[DFyre22]

The specific error is "Kernel Headers 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 were not found." I searched through the directory, and the only kernel headers to integrate the Virtual environment into the fedora host are for FC13 or prior OS's. I returned the the VM site, and checked through their databases, but there are no kernel headers to DL for FC14. Just trying to see if there is some kind of workaround, or a different hypervisor that may actually have the necessary headers

I've been successful installing VirtualBox. Have you tried this hypervisor?

[pforsell]

I am running VBox on F14 and I can fnd the headers in the source repo:

[peter@delia ~]$ yum list kernel-devel-2.6.35.6*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Available Packages
kernel-devel.i686                    2.6.35.6-45.fc14                     fedora
[peter@delia ~]$

Hope this helps.

-Peter

[DFyre22]

VirtualBox did installl, however after creating a new virtual machine it fails to power on. Attempts to power on a VM give me the error of "kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908). It tells me to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root to correct the problem. Unfortunately, running that command results in failure to register the virtualbox kernel modules, and failure to recompile the virtualbox kernel modules.

[jpollard]

Originally Posted by DFyre22

The specific error is "Kernel Headers 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 were not found." I searched through the directory, and the only kernel headers to integrate the Virtual environment into the fedora host are for FC13 or prior OS's. I returned the the VM site, and checked through their databases, but there are no kernel headers to DL for FC14. Just trying to see if there is some kind of workaround, or a different hypervisor that may actually have the necessary headers

You seem to have an old kernel (2.6.35-6...) My kernel is 2.6.35-11*..

You should be able to install the older kernel if you want to.

Did you install dkms & gcc?

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This link is meant for Fedora 13 but should point you in the right direction:

http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/05...-on-fedora-13/

[kai4785]

KVM is Redhat's virtualization platform of choice, and Fedora supports all of the newest and latest features.
yum -y install kvm virt-manager libvirt python-virtinst

Virtualbox is a great Desktop virtualization package that comes with great guest additions. You do have to compile the kernel modules, so as was posted above, you need kernel-headers, gcc, and alternatively DKMS. From the command line as root, run service vboxdrv setup after getting all the required software installed to build the kernel modules.

VMWare is a good enterprise solution, but I've never appreciated their "free" desktop solutions. Overly complicated for a Desktop user with no virtualization experience.

Overall, I personally suggest KVM if you want to go 100% pure Open Source (which matters to some folk), or VirtualBox if you want to go ease-of-use. Can't run VMs in in each at the same time, kernel modules will clash and potentially crash your system

[DFyre22]

Thank you all for the assistance. I was able to get VirtualBox running, apparently I forgot the dkms. I am not familiar with KVM, however, I will be looking into that option as well.

Glad to hear you got it working. You're welcome.