[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox

[Patrick Arnoux]

On 05/16/16 04:45 AM, Nikola M wrote:
> On 05/13/16 07:25 AM, Patrick Arnoux wrote:
>> On 05/12/16 02:25 PM, russell wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I upgraded to VirtualBox 5.0.20 on the 30th April and not 
>>> experienced any problems so far.
>>> In order to work around the problem of the supplied 
>>> /opt/VirtualBox/vboxconfig.sh not running properly and having to 
>>> manually replace the vboxconfig.sh with Jim Klimov's working version 
>>> and running it to complete the installation. I copied Jim's version 
>>> into /opt/VirtualBox/.  and changed the permissions to 555 instead 
>>> of 755.
>>> So when I ran the pkgadd the installation complained about the file 
>>> so you had to select y to continue but the installation completed 
>>> normally.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Russell
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> These might prove useful.
>>
>> Attached is a modified vboxconfig.sh as well as pkgmap for VirtualBox 
>> 5.0.20 which works on Solaris as well as Openindiana/Illumos.
>> Use pkgtrans to extract the VirtualBox package to a directory, 
>> replace pkgmap in the top level directory and vboxconfig.sh in
>> root/opt/VirtualBox with these and install.
>> The installation should be clean.
>
> Following Jim Klimov's great manual word-by word from:
> https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh
>
> I made VirtualBox-5.0.20-106931-SunOS-illumos.tar.gz that includes 
> repacked changes.
> Available at: 
> https://mega.nz/#!jJAjAAQR!XR1cPpCic8-_E71ZcxSsfiZyrtQ1MC9uUDqgSYKCQ_8
>
> SHA256SUM is VirtualBox-5.0.20-106931-SunOS-illumos.tar.gz.sha256
> Av. at: 
> https://mega.nz/#!GYgXzKpQ!kF6GVs-IgWCGYYCdgI92YrEeScZi7IkkpsVJT8lyH_0
>
> sha256sum -c :
> 318a47b9c13c64e9a7147780f3c8a0c9127d1db3ad0f76d03bffc84deebe7d2a 
> VirtualBox-5.0.20-106931-SunOS-illumos.tar.gz
>
> You can also , following manual repack it too,
> but I did it to save people's time for others wanting to install and 
> use VirtualBox on OI. :)
>
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Cool !

Patrick