Fedora/CentOS vagrant boxes updated

Joseph Scheuhammer clown at alum.mit.edu
Wed Feb 28 19:32:57 UTC 2018


On 2018-02-28 2:31 PM, Tirloni, Giovanni wrote:
> On 02/28/2018 04:19 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
>> Hey Giovanni,
>> Does this mean
>>
>>   1. If your host OS is Linux 4.15, you need  VirtualBox 5.2.8, or
>>   2. If your Linux VM is Linux 4.15, you need  VirtualBox 5.2.8 ?
>>
>> I suppose "both" is a possibility as well.
>>
>> Put another way, my host is macOS (Hi Sierra).  Do I need to use
>> VirtualBox 5.2.8 when I upgrade to the latest Vagrant boxes?
> VirtualBox 5.2.8 is only needed inside the VM to install the Guest Additions on a 4.15 kernel. Fedora 27 recently updated to 4.15 so that was necessary while building the vagrant base box with all updates.
>
> You don't need to update. Usually having a moderately recent version of VirtualBox running on the host is enough to work with the newest VM/guest additions.
>
Got it.  Thanks, Giovanni

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