issues installing virtual box on 4.5.0-22.el7.aarch64

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superfresh
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issues installing virtual box on 4.5.0-22.el7.aarch64

Post by superfresh »

Im trying to install Virtual box on linux ver 4.5.0-22.el7.aarch64. When I try to do it the repo way I get error:

"/virtualbox/rpm/el/7/aarch64/repodata/repomd.xml [Errno 14] Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
One of the configured repositories failed (Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-7 / aarch64 - VirtualBox),
and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.....etc"

Therefore I try to install virtual box using an rpm. I tried many different rpm's and for every one I get error of "Not a compatible architecture". It seems no packages are compatible architectures for this install.
I even tried installing from the .run file.

Is there a problem right now or am I missing something. Your help is appreciated.
andyp73
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Re: issues installing virtual box on 4.5.0-22.el7.aarch64

Post by andyp73 »

aarch64 is the Linux architecture for 64bit ARM processors. VirtualBox virtualises, and therefore only runs on, x86 processor architectures.

If you look at the first part of the repository URL: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/7/ you see the only option is for x86_64.

-Andy
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