[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

[Harry Putnam]

Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> writes:


[...]

Harry wrote:
>> I don't understand what is different about hipster that it just
>> absolutely cannot handle the pkgs on offer at Vbox.  I mean the ready
>> made binaries.
>>
>

Alexander P replied:
> Hi.
> This is not about OI, it's about VirtualBox. You take binaries,
> compiled for another OS
> (some Solaris version, likely post-split) and run them on OI. The
> fact, that they worked till now
> is a pure luck. Now they added explicit dependency on old compiler,
> which is evidently
> used by Solaris, but has never been used by OI (/dev or
> /hipster). Should we import outdated
> and unsupported compiler version just to run one specific application?
> I don't think so.
>
> Luckily it's open source, and we can recompile it. Aurelien has a
> working component,
> and he will likely put it for review when he has free time (he can't
> work on OI in 24x7 rhythm).
> When he does this, you can help with reviewing and testing.
>
> For now Geoff proposed working workaround.

Heh, I'm like the blind fellow feeling an elephants tail and thinking
I have hold of a snake..


Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> writes:

[...]

> Yes, I echo those comments.
>
> Virtualbox is an excellent hypervisor.  Hopefully a package can get
> created for OI and can also be used on on Omnios.
>
> Just a thought, you can probably stick with the 5.0.x series for now.
> That is what I am running now on production systems and it is good
> enough.  I normally don't upgrade to the current release until it the
> current branch stabilizes.  I just started looking at it a few weeks
> ago, because I figured it was getting fully baked.
>
> If you are doing servers you are going to want to get the SMF service
> wrapper by Jim.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/

Thank you both for helping guide my thinking on this and getting a
better understanding of how things work in hipster developement.

Thanks for the URLs as well.