heads up: VBox RPM doesn't work on Fedora 32

[robatino]

I just installed F32 Final (official release next Tuesday) and found that VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.6_137129_fedora31-1.x86_64.rpm doesn't install:

Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides python(abi) = 3.7 needed by VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.6_137129_fedora31-1.x86_64

The blog post https://medium.com/@drpdishant/installi ... 0118d54e05 claims that a Test Build .run file from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds will work on F32 but I have not tried this yet (I can wait at least a few days).

[masch]

Hi!
Did you get any workaround to make it work on Fedora 32?

Thanks!

[ferb]

I have the same problem with fedora 32,

[robatino]

Hi!
Did you get any workaround to make it work on Fedora 32?

Thanks!

I tried installing VB 6.1.6 from the Rpmfusion repo, but after doing what I always do to make the Oracle version work (adding my user to the vboxusers group, installing the extension pack) guests would immediately abort after starting, so I gave up and uninstalled the packages. I'm not familiar with the Rpmfusion version so I don't know if there's always something else that needs to be done. In any case, there's a ticket for the Oracle version ( https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19537 ) and it's being worked on, so hopefully will be fixed soon. Installing the Rpmfusion packages works fine, so that's a workaround if you can figure out how to make that work.

[robatino]

I just installed using the .run file in https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.6/ , which works despite the fact that it's labeled amd64 and my CPU is Intel. It seems to work fine (after also installing the Oracle extension pack).

[ferb]

Hi!
Did you get any workaround to make it work on Fedora 32?

Thanks!

I tried installing VB 6.1.6 from the Rpmfusion repo, but after doing what I always do to make the Oracle version work (adding my user to the vboxusers group, installing the extension pack) guests would immediately abort after starting, so I gave up and uninstalled the packages. I'm not familiar with the Rpmfusion version so I don't know if there's always something else that needs to be done. In any case, there's a ticket for the Oracle version ( https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19537 ) and it's being worked on, so hopefully will be fixed soon. Installing the Rpmfusion packages works fine, so that's a workaround if you can figure out how to make that work.

i installed this version its work for me

[masch]

I have installed the VirtualBox from rpmfusion and everything works great!

[ferb]

Available in https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fe ... ackages/v/

[albflo]

Has somebody issues to get the hardware acceleration working in a Windows 10 guest? I can't figure out how to get that to work, would be great if someone has any informations how to set that up!

[thesourcehim]

Has somebody issues to get the hardware acceleration working in a Windows 10 guest? I can't figure out how to get that to work, would be great if someone has any informations how to set that up!

For me virtualbox crashes whenever I try to start a VM with 3d acceleration enabled (never happened in Fedora 31, started to happen in Fedora 32 with RPMFusion packages, doesn't matter which guest, both VMSVGA and VBoxSVGA are affected), I managed to get some backtrace and created a bug report:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19560

[robatino]

VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.8_137981_fedora31-1.x86_64.rpm gives the same error when trying to install on F32. There still appears to be no F32 RPM. The .run file in https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.8/ appears to work fine, as before.

[robatino]

Installed VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.10_138449_fedora32-1.x86_64.rpm on F32 and it seems to work fine. The F32 repo is also working.

[GlennJohnson]

This is still an issue.

- nothing provides python(abi) = 3.7

[robatino]

This is still an issue.

- nothing provides python(abi) = 3.7

Are you on F32? If so, you need to install the version I mentioned since that's the only RPM available for F32.

[GlennJohnson]

Yes, I'm running Fedora 32. I tried installing the wrong VB version. Let me try VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.10_138449_fedora32-1.x86_64.rpm.

Thanks for the reply robatino.


Later that same morning... Worked a charm robatino. I was able to install without issue. Thank you!