[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.0.16 working on OpenIndiana

[Jim Klimov]

15 марта 2016 г. 10:42:45 CET, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> пишет:
>On 03/13/16 01:01 PM, Michael Kruger wrote:
>> On 03/13/2016 07:56 AM, russell wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I upgraded to VirtualBox from 5.0.14 to 5.0.16 no problems found
>yet.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Russell
>>
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>> Is there a package for this, or did you roll your own?
>>
>> If the later, do you have a procedure which could be added to the 
>> OpenIndiana Handbook?
>
>http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox
>You need to *|touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxflt |*and to apply  patched 
>vboxconfig.sh to update,
>As per manual on https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh
>
>I sort of "rolled my own" 5.0.14 per russell and  jimklimov
>instructions 
>and patch:
>https://mega.nz/#!TMIWga5Q!NE02sG8DDXpiv5nub3sPlyEDP417dvq1_-KMYl_uCjw
>sha256sum:
>08ed978cd2ef144b5a9f619349bcf24462f3b57eab65088e7e2a44c2f789f742
>And now I made form myself also 5.0.16:
>https://mega.nz/#!7ZQHzTLa!02SMDWC7gyMS15oSQAwrnrM5AmD7gqNUNmujGSrCZwc
>sha256sum:
>726350d7057b6f8f478993f0a0103f8ec7ed19faa16bd3c2c598186a16d362fb
>
>But I am not sure for binary-redistribution rights and since it is 
>binary from VirtualBox.org,
>probably not going to be inside OI  before VirtualBox is built and 
>published on OI itself as Virtualbox-OSE,
>so it needs contribution and maintaining.
>
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IANAL, but I *think* that main binary is purely GPL and so under that license, including redistribution I guess. Extensions are PUEL and essentially should be downloaded for free from Oracle by end-users responsible for each installed instance.

Jim
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