[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing VBox

[Albert Lee]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Friday, October 22, 2010 12:53 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have tried to install VirtualBox on a machine that runs
>> OpenIndiana, and here is what I get:
>>
>> $ VirtualBox-3.2.10-SunOS-r66523.pkg
>> .............................................................
>> ## Executing postinstall script.
>> Checking for older bits...
>> can't unload the module: Device busy
>>    - Unloading: NetAdapter module ...FAILED!
>> ## ERROR!! Failed to remove older/partially installed bits.
>> pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
>>
>> Installation of<SUNWvbox>  failed.
>>
>>
>> Has anybody succesfully installed this version of VBox?
>
> Yes. Your problem seems to be that you already have a version installed and
> it won't go away.
>

Make sure the VirtualBox network interface vboxnet0 isn't in use by
NWAM or otherwise configured. Check if it shows up in /sbin/ifconfig
-a; you can try /sbin/ifconfig unplumb vboxnet0 if it is active.

-Albert