[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

[Reginald Beardsley]

I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian 9.3 as guests on an HP Z400  I followed the wiki instructions.  Here are the scripts I used:


# cat tst1
#!/bin/sh
pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.pkg . all
rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall
sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap
pkgadd -d . SUNWvbox

# cat tst2
#!/bin/sh 
VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.4-119785.vbox-extpack

Guests reading from the optical drive is pretty well buggered.  Disk images work fine.   If you want to migrate a Windows system to a VM you need to use disk2vhd to create the disk image ofd the filesystem.

You also need to load the extensions from an iso image in each guest.  I had some issues with screen resolution on Debian, but when I came back from my trip the problem was gone.  No idea what the issue was.

good luck!
Reg