[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.0.2 running on OpenIndiana Hipster oi_151.1.9 illumos-4cfd297

[Nikolam]

This is great news@ Thanks for sharing, it is worth trying out.
I too had VBox uninstallabel on Hipster.

Hope patches could find a way to upstream or building it inside OI for
Hipster.


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:18 PM, russell <stream at willows7.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just thought I would let you know that I have unsuccessfully installed
> VirtualBox 4.3.28 and successfully installed VirtualBox 5.0.2.
>
> The procedure I followed was to download Jim Klimov excellent
> vboxconfig.sh script which I used to replace the default one in
> /opt/VirtualBox, which permitted v4.3.28 to be completely removed.
>
> After downloading VirtualBox 5.0.2 and extracting the pkg file
>
> #  gzip -d -c VirtualBox-5.0.2-102096-SunOS.tar.gz | ( cd /tmp ; tar xf - )
> # cd /tmp
> # pkgadd -d ./VirtualBox-5.0.2-SunOS-amd64-r102096.pkg
>
> This will proceed normally until the it fails with post processing, here
> Jim's modified script is copied into /opt/VirtualBox containing v5.0.2
> application. Now run, Jim's modified script as follows
>
> # cd /opt/VirtualBox
> # ./vboxconfig.sh --postinstall
>
> VirtualBox installation completes. I have found that it constantly on
> VirtualBox startup it has VirtualBox Warning about disk image files, one or
> more is missing but the VMs work okay so far.
>
> Russell
>
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