[OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, March 01, 2013 08:30 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-03-01 01:14, Heinrich van Riel wrote:
>> After close to 1TB of data added and 20+ virtual machine installs over
>> iSCSI, it is still running and performs better than expected at this 
>> point.
>> (the server was running windows storage server for a few months before,
>> stable but, disappointed performance wise so I know it is not hardware
>> related).
>> I am going to assume it was related to the vbox install failures and 
>> move
>> on, do not have the time to dig into it.
>
> Did you "touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxflt" before VirtualBox installation?
>
> This should force the installer to use a vboxnet driver instead of
> one geared for Oracle Crossbow. That shouldn't panic the system,
> though - but rather fail the loading of a wrong driver.
>
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox
>
> You tried the latest version - 4.2.6, right?

Hah! Virtualbox will never install the crossbow net driver on oi_151a7 
because it won't meed the minimum version requirements of snv_154.