Unable to install kernel-devel on CentOS

[alexgit2k]

Vagrant fails with No package kernel-devel-3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 available. when using CentOS 7. The problem is that there is no such kernel-devel-xyz for CentOS (checked 7 & 8), the package-name is just kernel-devel.

See also https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest/issues/351#issuecomment-540870693 and https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest/issues/351#issuecomment-712773555

Vagrantfile

Vagrant.require_version ">= 2.0"

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "centos/7"
  config.vbguest.installer_options = { allow_kernel_upgrade: true }

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |box|
     box.name = "test"
     box.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nictype1", "virtio"]
     box.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nictype2", "virtio"]
     box.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--paravirtprovider", "default"]
     box.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
     box.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
     box.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
  end
end

[fnordfish]

CentOS kernel packages are painful. Please check if one of the solutions in https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest/discussions/401 help.

[alexgit2k]

It is working for CentOS 7 with enablerepo: true, because then yum install -y kernel-devel-`uname -r` --enablerepo=C*-base --enablerepo=C*-updates works. It is not working without enablerepo (or set to false): yum install -y kernel-devel-`uname -r` does not work, like now, because the package is no longer in the base-repository.

Without the version as in pull-request #407 yum install -y kernel-devel --enablerepo=C*-base --enablerepo=C*-updates and yum install -y kernel-devel work, BUT install the latest kernel-devel-package which may not matching the running kernel. Therefore allow_kernel_upgrade: true must be used.

I will use enablerepo and I'm closing the pull-request. But there should be a note at lib/vagrant-vbguest/installers/centos.rb:install_kernel_devel if this failes to use enablerepo: true.

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[Tianran1998]

It's very kind of u.