[OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Harry

There is a wiki entry to install recent virtualbox.
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox

You may need the vboxconfig.sh patch.

Virtualbox ships its own QT5 environment with the software so that it 
does not break because of the installed version.


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Greetings
Till

On 16.07.2017 18:34, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I posted this query July 9th but got no takers far as a response.
> Is this question in appropriate here?  Is it a foolish question?
> 
> If both answers are no, I'd really like to hear from someone who
> either knows first hand or has a solid opinion about it.
> 
> I don't want to start messing up my OS if installing qt5 and trying to
> run recent version of Vbox are likely to cause me grief, I might not
> be able to contend with.
> But I do need to get a newer version of Vbox installed and working.
> 
>  From July 9th:
> 
>    From: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
>    Subject: Should we be able to install and run recent vbox versions
>    Newsgroups: gmane.os.openindiana.general
>    To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>    Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 17:56:53 -0400 (6 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes ago)
>    Message-ID: <867ezhl1ei.fsf at local.lan>
>    
>    Setup: OS: Openindian/hipster (A branch of Solaris 11)
>     Hardware: HP xw8600 workstation:
>               2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB Ram
>    -------       -------       ---=---       -------      -------
>    I've heard that recent versions of Vbox (above 5.0.X) are based on qt5
>    
>    Should we be able to install recent versions of Vbox from the VBox web
>    pages, provided we have qt5 installed?
> 
> 
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