Hi, think I was confused about what ISO to use.  Do you mind linking one for the latest release as an example?



On Sep 30, 2012, at 6:43 PM, "Herb Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



> On 2012-09-28 8:36 PM, McCormick, Jeremy I. wrote:

>> Hello,

>> 

>> I have been attempting to install SL6 in VirtualBox today, but I’m not

>> having much luck.I’m running the VB app on Windows XP, i386.

> 

> What specific problems are you having? I've been running SL in 

> VirtualBox on XP for years, and more recently on Win 7.  VirtualBox will 

> even let you run 64 bit SL as a guest OS on a 32 bit XP host.

> 

> Just use the same install ISO images that you would use for an install 

> on real hardware.

> 

> 

>> I would prefer to run VB on Linux, actually, and I have access to an

>> x86_64 Linux machine.But I ran into some mysterious “dependency hell”

>> issues there attempting to install it, whereas the VB app on Windows

>> “just worked”.So I’ll try there for the time being.

> 

> I've recently successfully installed VirtualBox on an SL 6.3 host. Going 

> from memory the key steps are:

> # yum install yum-conf-epel

> # yum install dkms

> # yum install gcc

> # yum install make

> # yum install kernel-devel

> then use yum to install the downloaded VirtualBox rpm.