[OpenIndiana-discuss] fresh hipster install important tool no workee

[Harry Putnam]

Just installed hipster in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host.

I used this iso: oi-hipster-gui-20160421.iso

It's been disappointing.

Seems that updating to latest image is not possible:

A command like `pkg image-update -v'

Just sets and never returns or shows any activity. But it is burning
up all resources.

If I go to a differnt xtem and try to do anything, the host stalls
completely and no activity is possible at all.

Can't run pkg publish right now to show the output here as things are
totally stalled, but publisher is set to:
   http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster

Had a similar bad experience trying to install the vbox guest tools.
At the end of the process it stalls with .. updating .. boot .. something?

Am I wasting my time with the mentioned iso... is there a more recent
one?

Are folks generally able to get a working system straight away from
the iso mentioned above?