to avoid the "requested URL error: 404 Not Found " message, while yum tries retrieving the VirtualBox package, one has to change the "$releasever" variable in the repo's baseurl address. Visible at http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
and, as a workaround, adapt it to the latest SL6 version right now available on Oracle's server: 6.6 - until they will update versions with next vbox release -------- Message initial -------- De: Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> À: Ralf <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sujet: Re: SL6 x86-64: testing repo: virtualbox kernel modules won't compile Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 08:46:14 -0400 On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Ralf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Moved a few days ago from Upstream Vendor to SL6. > A little contribution regarding the kernel version present in the SL > testing repo: > > - GNU Linux Kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64 won't compile latest > "virtualbox 5.0.20 r106931" modules issued from Oracle's VirtualBox > repo ; > > - whereas latest production kernel version SL6.7, > 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64, does it, supposing one modifies the release > variables to catch back the 6.5 tree... > > Not sure anyone is currently using vbox nor using testing SL, but if > anyone is, insmod the vbox modules from SL6.7 to a native testing > install, could at least do the job... > > Cheers, > Ralf There are a number of not-necessarily-compatible-with-Virtualbox kernels in the recent RHEL 6.8 release, which I expect to be in an SL 6.8 release soon. Those may be helpful. I'm not sure what "modifying the release veriable" means?
