[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:52 AM Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
<predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 10/23/18 22:10, John D Groenveld wrote:
> > In message <
> alpine.SOC.2.20.1810231249340.28903 at dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>, Tim
> >  Mooney writes:
> >> 3) what other things are missing to bring KVM/QEMU to good feature
> parity,
> >> at least for Windows VMs, with VB?  Anyone looked at USB passthrough?
> >> How's audio support?  Does a working libspice get us both shared
> clipboard
> >> and shared folders?
> >
> > Neither KVM nor bhyve support USB passthru.
> > bhyve supports PCI passthru, but you would have to pass an entire
> > USB add-on card to your guest.
> >
> > Shared folders can be solved with NFS and CIFS.
> >
> >
> > BTW has anyone tried to port VBox to OI?
> > Even without Oracle's proprietary bits it may be useful.
> > It is for FreeBSD hosts and guests.
> >
> > John
> > groenveld at acm.org
>
> I have tried to compile VirtualBox
> (https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=89340), but was
> stuck in dtrace probes failure. No support from VB guys can be expected...
>

I updated Alexander's recipe but could use help with the install stage.
It seems there is not scripted install, Arch Linux and Debian use a
homebrewed install target.

https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/4569




>
> So, I have switched to KVM. Not ideal - but what choice I had IF I want
> to keep OI (because native zfs support)?
>
> With best regards.
> Predrag Zečević
> >
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