Oracle continues its tradition of sabotaging the users

As a part of that test I installed the latest VirtualBox 5.1.10.

You probably already know where this is going: of course, it did not work. Entirely. Completely. Totally.

Well, not entirely - the VB itself starts up and even allows you to create a VM. But that VM does not start. It complains about "some error code that occurred" and recommends running a command

sudo /sbin/vboxsetup

But when you run this command, it only throws several more errors, complaining of how this system is not set up for compiling the kernel modules and recommends, in turn, to run several Yum commands to install kernel_core_devel packages.

Well, guess what, those packages do not exist in the Fedora 25 repositories. A multi-billion corporation should have done due diligence and verified its setup before releasing a specifically Fedora 25 package of VirtualBox, instead of writing God knows what in a script and releasing it, hoping that it would work.

If they ever did their due diligence, they would have probably learned, that Fedora, starting with version 20, uses DMF instead of Yum for package management. What a bunch of irresponsible yahoos!

There are bug reports to Oracle for this, which they are in no rush to resolve, but you can fix the things very easily.

All you need to do is to install the kernel development package and the kernel headers:

sudo yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

Voila! It works. Don't tell Oracle, they will just copy-paste the above command in their script and forget about responsibility again.

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