VirtualBox 6.1 not compatible with F33

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VirtualBox is not yet compatible with Fedora33, I cannot upgrade from fedora 32 to 33 because the Oracle repository does not offer rpmS for this version.

That’s a pain, I use it a lot on my Laptop.

This sounds the end I wonder, we got a kernel not patched with F32 during a while, then now a version not compatible.

I might switch to virt-manager, it is OK for sure but the UI is missing some cool features like to group VM, create bridge network on the fly, probably more.

What do you think ???

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I have F33 running (KDE) and use Virtualbox 6.1 on it.
This entry is in my repolist:

virtualbox Fedora 33 - x86_64 - VirtualBox

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F33 was an upgrade of F32 or a direct install ?

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It was an upgrade
You could try to just install the rpm from the virtualbox.org download site:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.16/
Choose the .run file and make it executable. Then you should be able to install VBox on F33.

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fun dnf refuses the upgrade

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No rpm for F33 : https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

It is time to move to KVM

Fedora 33 - x86_64 - VirtualBox                                                                                                          4.5 kB/s | 6.9 kB     00:01    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'virtualbox':
  - Status code: 404 for http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/33/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 23.57.80.43)
Erreur : Échec du téléchargement des métadonnées pour le dépôt « virtualbox » : Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
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I have been wanting to try boxes for a long time but I have not yet tried it.
When i upgraded to fedora 33 beta Virtulabox wasn’t there, so i used the one from rpmfusion and it works for me
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

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Or more complicated:

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I never figured how VB is easy to use, a nice UI and also a feature I really need on a laptop, bridge the wireless NIC. It seems it is not possible with KVM :expressionless:

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I moved away from VirtualBox and I don’t regret it.
I used Boxes for a while (about two months), but it was not stable enough in my use cases and it missed some options (especially regarding multiple ethernet networks). so I went back to virt-manager and I’m happy with it.

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I have some issues with bridge, I did not find how to make really workable to get an IP from my network, not a blocker for now, but in some situation it might help to debug

Still in learning curve :wink:

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you are right virt-manager is cool…maybe faster than VB.

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It is isn’t it… @davidep gave me this tip, use it for remote arm-vm’s to test :grinning:

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