On 07/04/18 10:02, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/07/18 07:03, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 04/04/18 13:21, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
I have been using VirtualBox for a long while. Looking at what rpms are 
available
I see:

$ dnf list '*VirtualBox*'
Last metadata expiration check: 19 days, 23:03:27 ago on Thu Mar 15 14:29:34 
2018.
Installed Packages
VirtualBox-5.2.x86_64                      5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1
@virtualbox
Available Packages
VirtualBox.x86_64                          5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-5.1.x86_64                      5.1.34_121010_fedora26-1
virtualbox
VirtualBox-devel.i686                      5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-devel.x86_64                    5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-guest-additions.x86_64          5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-kmodsrc.x86_64                  5.1.22-1.fc26
rpmfusion-free
VirtualBox-kmodsrc.noarch                  5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-server.x86_64                   5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-webservice.x86_64               5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
akmod-VirtualBox.x86_64                    5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
kmod-VirtualBox.x86_64                     5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates
python-VirtualBox.x86_64                   5.2.6-2.fc26
rpmfusion-free-updates

Which repo [virtualbox (Oracle) or rpmfusion] should one use?
Is Oracle simply a more up-to-date repo? Does rpmfusion packages actually fetch
the Oracle rpm, or is rpmfusion a separate, full build?

The size difference is significant:
      rpmfusion    VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc26.x86_64.rpm             8.1MB
      virtualbox    VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1.x86_64.rpm    69  MB

If the two are different: if I change to use the rpmfusion repo, will the VMs be
compatible?

TIA

Anyone? Should be an easy question for someone who knows?

See https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

Since RPMFusion is using the VirtualBox name they would be required to follow 
the
license.  Specifically:

"The term “VirtualBox” has been registered by Oracle as a trademark in various
countries. If you choose to ship custom binaries and/or source code revisions 
of the
product, you may not use the VirtualBox name in those versions."

Therefore, RPMFusion has built their packages from Oracle's source and have 
decided
to package things in multiple rpms as opposed to a single rpm like Oracle has 
done.
They have also modified the way kernel modules are built when the kernel 
packages get
updated.

And, since they are using the VirtualBox name they must not have made any 
changes
such that a VM created on their release would be incompatible with the Oracle 
release.

So, using either one is fine and pretty much just a personal choice.

Thanks. Looking at the huge difference in size between the two sources, I 
wonder if
rpmfusion broke the single package from virtualbox into separate packages. The 
size
still does not fully add up though.

Does anyone know what is different between the two sources? I mean, why would 
rpmfusion
put the effort for no added value? Maybe the virtualbox repo includes fluff 
that rpmfusion
removed?

$ sudo dnf install VirtualBox
====================================================================================
 Package                       Arch     Version        Repository               
Size
====================================================================================
Installing:
 VirtualBox                    x86_64   5.2.8-2.fc26   rpmfusion-free-updates  
8.1 M
Installing dependencies:
 VirtualBox-kmodsrc            noarch   5.2.8-2.fc26   rpmfusion-free-updates  
801 k
 VirtualBox-server             x86_64   5.2.8-2.fc26   rpmfusion-free-updates   
15 M
 akmod-VirtualBox              x86_64   5.2.8-3.fc26   rpmfusion-free-updates   
31 k
 akmods                        noarch   0.5.6-12.fc26  updates                  
24 k
 kmodtool                      noarch   1-24.fc26      fedora                   
16 k

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================
Install  6 Packages

Total download size: 24 M
Installed size: 66 M

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Eyal Lebedinsky (fed...@eyal.emu.id.au)
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