[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox fails to start with last updated Build 151a

[Alex Viskovatoff]

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:21 +0200, Ewald Ertl wrote:
> I've a laptop running since an OpenSolaris build and just upgraded to
> each version.
> Now I've updated to the latest dev-il Package Repository and switched
> the sfe repository and upgraded.
> 
> I still have problems with the kvm module, so I'm using VirtualBox and
> unload the kvm module, because otherwise VirtualBox didn't start.
> 
> But "suddenly " ( I do not know whats the real reason ) VirtualBox
> stops with the attached Screenshot.

Hi Ewald,

That's very interesting. We were aware of this problem, and have our own
workaround, described here:
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Spec+Files+Extra+Repository

But I can confirm that the workaround described in the link you give
(http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1840) also works, although on amd64
systems, the file VBoxSVC that needs to be modified is now in
/opt/VirtualBox/amd64.

This problem is indeed caused my your using the new SFE repository,
specifically, installing runtime/gcc. This VirtualBox bug is the only
problem we have run into so far with runtime/gcc placing symbolic links
in /usr/lib, so that old VirtualBox bug report is very useful, in that
it may help us understand what is going wrong with VirtualBox here.

Regards,
Alex