[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:02 PM Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

> On 24/10/2018 5:10 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox
> 5.2.20,...:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 10/22/18 07:35 PM, russell wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20 yesterday, this works fine on the BE
> >>> completed on the 11th July but still get the lockup and reboot on any
> >>> later BE.
> >>
> >> I know it bothers some of you guys, that VirtualBox does not work on
> >> OpenIndiana anymore, but please take into account that VirtualBox is
> >> meant for Oracle Solaris 11 and when it worked on illumos it was just by
> >> an accident.  The more illumos diverges from Solaris heritage (and
> >> mitigating Intel bugs in "helped" here a lot), the worst for VirtualBox
> >> on illumos.
> >>
> >> Those who can, please, don't hold your breath and consider migrating
> >> to illumos KVM. This is in many respects saner, safer, and more
> >> supportable solution moving forward.
> >
> > I know you're right, Michael.  I'm one of the VB users that's been
> > dragging my feet and hoping that a fix happens so that I can continue to
> > use VB.  It's not because I'm in love with VirtualBox, just that I
> > absolutely need a fully-functional Windows VM.
>
> I'm in the same boat.  I've been running OI (well, OpenSolaris) since it
> was first released, as a ZFS LAN fileserver and VirtualBox host, with a
> gaggle of little VM's (Older NetBSD's, some newer CentOS) for over 10
> years, it's been mostly faultless and *easy* - VirtualBox's GUI is
> great, it makes VM's trivial to install and manage for a guy like me who
> just wants to spin up some VM's with minimal effort and have them Just
> Work for most-any guest OS.
>
> The idea of having to learn yet another VM system .. gak .. that may or
> may not support my older NetBSD VMs etc .. and doesn't appear to have a
> nice GUI to drive it.
>
> But then, I need to replace my hardware as it's getting old, so I need
> to install a newer openIndiana, which doesn't seem to work (yet) on
> recent Coffee-Lake Gigabyte motherboards.  At least I haven't yet been
> able to get it to install.  Sorry for the whiny rant :)
>

Could you try to boot this?

http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/users/aurelien/gcc-next/20181023/

>
> I want ZFS, it's *the* filesystem.  I want VirtualBox or something else
> that works as well as it does in terms of ease of use - performance is
> acceptable, I'm not thrashing filesystems etc.  Maybe Solaris 11.4 is a
> viable host?  I dunno, after 30 years in this game in some form or
> another, I'm tired of having to change things all the time to do the
> same job!
>
>
>
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