Liang,

On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Liang Suilong wrote:
> I update to VirtualBox-3.1 from VirtualBox yum repo. After downloading the
> package and starting to setup, yum shows an error. all of files in
> VirtualBox-3.1 conflict with VirtualBox. I believe that the same problem
> will appear in the SUSE and RHEL and openSUSE.
>
> Here is a log: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1352061/virtualbox_conflict.log
>
> The method which I slove the problem is that I install VirtualBox-3.1 after
> removing VirtualBox.
>
> Then I suggest that virtualbox should add "Obsoletes: VirtualBox" into RPM
> spec file. Yum will remove VirtualBox automatically before installing
> VirtualBox-3.1.

Known problem, there is a remark about this conflict on the download page.
Thanks for the hint.

> Additionally, VirtualBox 3.1 is still incompatible with kvm_amd module.

And this will not change as the kvm_intel and kvm_amd modules enable
the VT-x resp. AMD-V mode during module initalization. This is a
bug in the Linux module (or the Linux distribution which loads these
modules by default).

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert

Sitz der Gesellschaft:
Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten
Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028
Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

_______________________________________________
vbox-users mailing list
vbox-users@virtualbox.org
http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Reply via email to