[OpenIndiana-discuss] [OmniOS-discuss] Fix to VirtualBox installer under OI/OmniOS

[Jim Klimov]

Hello all,

Earlier in March I posted a patch that fixes installation of VirtualBox on non-Oracle Solaris hosts (e.g. OpenIndiana and OmniOS). Lest it be lost in the list archives, I moved the patch (now licensed as GPLv2 to match VirtualBox licensing) and an accompanying README to GitHub: https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh

Feel free to add the changes into the distributions (if you maintain packages/repositories), so such hackery won't be needed ;)

Thanks, 
 Jim Klimov




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От: Jim Klimov <jim at cos.ru>
Дата: Monday, March 16, 2015 9:30
Тема: [OmniOS-discuss] Fix to VirtualBox installer under OI/OmniOS
Кому (To): openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org, omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
Копия (Cc): thomas at espix.net


> Hello all,

> Earlier this month I posted to the VirtualBox lists my patch for vboxconfig.sh to better support 
> installation on non-Sun/Oracle Solaris-like hosts, tested on OI (Hipster) and OmniOS (bloody). 
> It may support SXCE as well (has the code, but was not practically tested lately) since there are 
> aspects where SXCE was like Solaris 10 (SVR4 packaging) and yet more advanced than that 
> (CrossBow, etc.).

> Unfortunately, so far the post fell through the cracks... so for possible integration into packages
> provided by the illumos distributions (e.g. to help the work done by Thomas Gouverneur to turn
> SVR releases into IPS, or to support proper GPL-source builds of VirtualBox), I'd like to repost 
> these fixes here too. Feel free to build on them, to make VB updates hiccup-less ;)

> In my practice, it sufficed to "pkgtrans" the Oracle VB package into a directory, patch the script
> "vboxconfig.sh" provided in the installation image, update the "pkgmap" with new values for 
> size and checksum of the changed file, (run "pkgrm" to remove an obsoleted installation) and 
> "pkgadd" to install the package from the directory.
> 


> ---

> The reposted part:

> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/7390
> Date: 2015-03-09 15:09:25 GMT

> Hello all,

> I submit a patch which should simplify installation of modern VirtualBox on some
> non-Oracle derivate distributions of Solaris which are known to host VirtualBox 
> just fine. Most of the patch deals with "proper" detection of major and minor OS
> version numbers on those distributions. Also there is now a touchable filename
> to enforce installation of USB filters and corresponding UNIX group accounts,
> as a workaround for further distros not detected as supported by even new code.

> I submit this patch under the terms of MIT license.

> This was last tested with VirtualBox 4.3.24 and OpenIndiana Hipster and OmniOS
> Bloody, all updated today to the most current states available.

> Note this was not yet tested in practice with SXCE although snippets were developed
> that should work there. I don't expect there are many of those installations left beside my 
> closet, but those are all pleased with old VBox versions for now... ain't broke, you know ;)


> Hope this helps,
> // Jim Klimov

> 

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