[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.2.14 crashing when attempting to start VM

[Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst]

On 08/14/18 10:45, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> On 14.08.2018 10:28, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
>>> Did the Workaround work?
>> Yes, we have added it to wiki
>>>>> we have had similar case in the past, and workaround was found:
>>>>> * https://www.illumos.org/issues/6919#note-7
>>>>> * that was added to wiki too:
>>>>>
>>> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox#id-72VirtualBox-Virtualizationfeatures
> 
> I am a bit confused. Did that workaround work for your current case? If
> so why are you asking for a Workaround?
> 
> Or was the problem that pkg overwrote 'set disable_smap=1' in /etc/system ?
That one was working, back in time I have added it ...
It is still present, but VirtualBox has crashed...
> 
> It looks like that back in the day Virtualbox used an undefined
> behaviour to access user data. Looks like a bug in Virtualbox to me. Os
> and other devs can workaround it but ultimately If I read Rmustacs
> comment correctly on the given illumos bug, then Virtualbox should use
> the proper Driver Framework methods to get user data instead of IOctl's.
> So unless the behave properly in modern Solarisch OSes there will always
> be problem's.
Well, Oracle recommends Solaris 11 (which is modern enough, I presume).
> 
> Greetings
> Till
> 

Hi Till,

Thanks for answers. I will try another OI update and will post finding 
here... Right now:
$ uname -rosv
SunOS 5.11 illumos-229852ddf2 illumos # BE is from 20180706

$ pkginfo -l SUNWvbox # Latest one, work fine
    PKGINST:  SUNWvbox
       NAME:  Oracle VM VirtualBox
   CATEGORY:  application
       ARCH:  i386
    VERSION:  5.2.16,REV=2018.07.16.17.17.123759
    BASEDIR:  /
     VENDOR:  Oracle Corporation
       DESC:  A powerful PC virtualization solution
     PSTAMP:  vbox20180716171735_r123759
   INSTDATE:  Aug 06 2018 10:24
    HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
      EMAIL:  info at virtualbox.org
     STATUS:  completely installed
      FILES:      335 installed pathnames
                   12 linked files
                   27 directories
                   28 executables
                    6 setuid/setgid executables
               428875 blocks used (approx)

If I get time, will try with build from source 
(https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Solaris%20build%20instructions)

Many thanks
Predrag Zečević

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