[OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox on Hipster

[Reginald Beardsley]

I don't *think* it's Hipster.  I had similar weirdness with Windows 7 as the host.  Sometimes it would find the disk and sometimes it wouldn't.  I don't think the VBox team is quite Solaris grade.  

It's really sad that the kernel group was let go.  I really wish someone with silly amounts of money would step up and hire a bunch of the kernel team to work on Illumos.  But, of course, people with silly amounts of money are only interested in getting more money. When they get older, they buy themselves a good reputation through "philanthropy".

With 3.3 TB of RAIDZ1 for the vdisk pool, it's sort of irrelevant whether the image is on a DVD or disk. The next thing is to get Windows 7 running as a guest  Once I sort out what actually works I'll test it usingt a fresh install on a spare disk and document it on the wiki.