What is the reason for not including and/or not supporting VirtualBox on SLES 11?
I see only Xen and KVM is mentioned to be supported on SLES 11.
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VirtualBox is made by a third party. It’ll probably work just fine
(worked on OpenSUSE 11.x) but Novell/SUSE is not going to be able to
ship it or declare support for it (or any number of other random
third-party options). On the other hand, Xen and KVM are made by
Novell/SUSE and in general are a better fit for servers (you’re on SLES
after all) than VirtualBox.
Anyway, if you want to run it install and give it a try.
Good luck.
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:34:02 +0000, ajpeck wrote:
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What is the reason for not including and/or not supporting VirtualBox on
SLES 11?I see only Xen and KVM is mentioned to be supported on SLES 11.[/color]
It can be installed from an additional repository - I see SLE11SP1 listed
in a search for VirtualBox at http://software.opensuse.org/search -
select “SLE 11 SP1” from the dropdown box and search for Virtualbox and
you’ll find backported packages.
Jim
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Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10
Novell Knowledge Partner
[QUOTE=Jim Henderson]On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:34:02 +0000, ajpeck wrote:
[color=blue]
What is the reason for not including and/or not supporting VirtualBox
on SLES 11?I see only Xen and KVM is mentioned to be supported on SLES 11.[/color]
It can be installed from an additional repository - I see SLE11SP1
listed in a search for VirtualBox at
http://software.opensuse.org/search - select “SLE 11 SP1” from the
dropdown box and search for Virtualbox and you’ll find backported
packages.
Jim
[/QUOTE]
Hi
But it won’t be supported…
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:39:38 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
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Hi But it won’t be supported…[/color]
Well, no more than any other application installed on SLES that isn’t
part of the standard distribution. Support would come from the
application vendor.
Jim
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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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Thanx for your explanation. I rather stick to supported tools.
Would this document openSUSE Virtualization with KVM also be applicable to SLES 11? Seeing I am new to using KVM, as I have been a VirtualBox user all this time.