Hi. I looked at the forums and this looks like the best place to post this problem.

I'm currently trying to learn about virtual machines in fedora 9 and I appear to have all of the required VM packages installed. I have figured out how to use the Virtual Machine Manager to create a virtual machine for a Guest OS. It would not let me connect to Xen for some reason, but it let me connect to Qemu. As an experiment, I tried to install Fedora 9 from the CDs in this new virtual machine. All went well until it asked me to insert disk 2. I did not see a way to eject the CD from the virtual machine window. I tried to manually insert disk 2, but the virtual machine would not recognize it.

My questions:

1. How to I eject the CD from the virtual machine so that I can proceed with the installation of my guest OS?

2. Why can't I connect to Xen in the Virtual Machine Manager window?

3. Are there any alternative software packages that I can try if these problems can't be fixed?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Try "VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_fedora9-1.i386.rpm" from
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
( If it is not already installed )

There are no problems making OS installs with cd sets,
except you will have to let the cd spin up before
"hitting 'Enter' for next cd"

Regards

Thank you very much for the reply, but I seem to have run into a problem with the installation. My steps are listed below. It says that I need to install my kernel sources. What Fedora package do I need to install to get these files? Thanks in advance.

I did the following to try to install it as root:

rpm -ivh VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_fedora9-1.i386.rpm

I got the following output:


Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:VirtualBox ########################################### [100%]
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox'
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL'
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless'
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv'

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Compilation of the kernel module FAILED! VirtualBox will not start until this
problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the
kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources are not found.
Install them and execute

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

as root.


The contents of /var/log/vbox-install.log:


Makefile:142: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.

The packages I have installed are :
kernel-headers
kernel-devel

You can actually see some of the result from
my install here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ght=virtualbox
( # 10 )

Regards

Thanks a lot for your help. That's exactly what I needed. Yum couldn't find kernel-headers, but it found kernel-devel. After I installed this, I removed/reinstalled VirtualBox successfully and successfully created a Debian virtual machine.

I noticed a couple of things about VirtualBox:

1. It appears to be a little smoother than the VM software that came with Fedora.

2. The layout reminds me of VMWare.