[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:07 AM Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

> On 24/10/2018 8:06 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> > 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/
>
> It boots!
>

Good to know! I will regenerate an image with Till's fix.




>
> gets stuck though, after boot :
> Console login service(s) cannot run
> .
> .
> .
>
> bash: fatal: libncurses.so.5 open failed, no such file or directory
> then some error about relocation in /usr/bin/bash: symbol PC: referenced
> symbol not found
>
>
>
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