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VirtualBox 3.0 in Fedora 11

How to get VirtualBox 3.0 installed with USB support on Fedora 11.

We need to install a little something to get the module to actually build before we install Virtualbox.

As root:

# yum install dkms kernel-devel make automake autoconf gcc

Then install VirtualBox:

32bit:

# rpm -Uhv http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora11-1.i586.rpm

64bit

# rpm -Uhv http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora11-1.x86_64.rpm

Right, now for the usb part. Got to find out the Group ID for vboxusers now. Go to Administration -> Users and Groups.

Remember the Group ID of vboxusers

Select the vboxusers group and press properties, add yourself to this group.

Add yourself to this group

Now we just have to add this little line to /etc/fstab

none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=501,devmode=664 0 0

note that 501 was the Group ID for vboxusers, which you are a member of, this grants you usb inside VirtualBox.

Now, reboot and try out your virtual boxes!

Thanks to readysleep for the fstab info!

Fullscreen flash in firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 crashes when trying to view a flash video in fullscreen.
Not to worry, for there is a workaround.

in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.1pre/firefox.sh

EDIT: the path on Fedora 11 is: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh
you add export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 at the beginning of the file, but underneath #!/bin/sh

So it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
#fix the goddamn flash bug.
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

# Firefox launcher containing a Profile migration helper for
# temporary profiles used during alpha and beta phases.

…

Save, and try out some flash video in fullscreen.

This should work for Archlinux, Fedora and Ubuntu. The path to firefox.sh might vary though.

Workaround taken from https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/333127/comments/13