[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox v5.1.0 on hipster lastest

[Мартин Бохниг]

Hello,

as for building vbox in hipster gate, that wouldn't be difficult and if you want I could add that from my old opensxce-userland gate.
I built it in userland in 2014 when I still planned to bring out OpenSXCE2014.11
And together with Juergen Keil I was the initiator of the  Qemu at opensolaris.org project and one of the first who ever (at the time only partially) built vbox on Solaris hosts even before Sun aqquired Innotech/VirtualBox for 20 Million $ (when Solaris still wasn't supported as host and when most build tools for vbox still weren't available for Solaris).

The somewhat scary question in that case however is Oracle's dual-licensing policy: On one hand they say it is gpl, unless exactly then when they decide it does not fall under gpl for a given distributor.

The 2nd question is, which benefit do you promise yourself from it.

And point #3: I can prove you in many ways that OpenSolaris is still most compatible to SunOS5.11 aka Solaris 11.0 (rather than to anything else).
So perhaps rather don't start to repeat this well-known trumpet's tones.
Mind the implications this would have: It would break compatibility with most configuration frameworks, only because a few persons think they created Solaris 13 by adding NIC and SATA drivers plus delete-engineering large chunks.

If you don't believe that it is mostly Sollaris 11.0, how would drivers still be swappable (technically [not legally] speaking) with 11.0?


--
Martin Bochnig



>Пятница,  9 сентября 2016, 8:06 UTC от Adam Števko <adam.stevko at gmail.com>:
>
>Hi,
>
>perhaps it is time to start compiling virtualbox ourselves to avoid any such problems? I also wonder what problems would we see thanks to illumos identifying itself as Solaris 11. Any volunteer on this?
>
>It would be good to sync up with tomww of SFE on this. (I talked to him some time ago that when he had nothing left to package, he could have a look on vbox as it will be much easier for everyone).
>
>Cheers,
>Adam
>
>> On 08 Sep 2016, at 15:32, Peter Tribble < peter.tribble at gmail.com > wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems
>> Administrator < predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com > wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> QT5 is required for VirtualBox 5.1 ( https://www.illumos.org/issues/7145 )
>> 
>> Not so. VirtualBox 5.1 includes QT5; the problem is that it doesn't work
>> right.
>> 
>> I'm wondering if this is another case of 5709/7165. It looks like the
>> VirtualBox
>> binaries were built on S10U10, as they're looking for asprintf.
>> 
>>  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5709
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Peter Tribble
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