I want to upgrade the default VBox 1.5.6 to the latest one.
I downloaded the rpm from virtualbox home page.
(VirtualBox-2.0.6_39765_openSUSE11-1.i586.rpm)
I don’t know what do I have to do.
After rpm -Uvh *.rpm I got many conflicts with the present version.
And what about these rpms?
xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose-1.5.6-33.1
virtualbox-ose-kmp-pae-1.5.6_2.6.25.5_1.1-33.1
virtualbox-ose-kmp-default-1.5.6_2.6.25.5_1.1-33.1
virtualbox-ose-guest-tools-1.5.6-33.1
My kernel is newer:
kernel-pae-2.6.25.18-0.2
I know -kmp-* consists of kernel modules. And the two others?
Remove the old OSE RPM completely (but don’t remove the VDIs or XML VM
description files) and install the PUEL version from scratch. You’ll
also need to install other packages to compile the vboxdrv module. See
another thread for the link to the howto at the OpenSUSE Wiki.
Just be aware that’s the OSE version and that one needs to be updated
whenever the kernel is updated. Whereas the PUEL version needs to be
recompiled whenever the kernel is updated. I wish vboxdrv didn’t depend
on the kernel version, but there you go.
The PUEL version is the one from Sun. PUEL = Personal Use and Evaluation
License. It has a few proprietary features so is not Open Source
Edition. See the VirtualBox site for an explanation. Go back to post #2
for how to install the PUEL version. If you don’t need the extra
features, be happy with OSE.