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

[Harry Putnam]

Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> 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.
>>
>
> VirtualBox 5.0.x works fine (may need the vboxconfig.sh patch).
>
> VirtualBox 5.1.x doesn't work, most likely due to illumos bug 5709.

Peter, is this the bug with the title:
  `Add binary compatibility with Solaris 10 update' 

Just making sure I'm reading the right one. I'm too dense to
understand how that impacts installing recent versions of virtualbox.

Can you explain a bit?