[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do about not having a compiler suitable to install VBox

[L. F. Elia]

Look for "nested virtualization"
Never done it on illumos but vanilla virtualbox supports it
----lfelia at yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701
Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting 

    On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 06:44:54 AM EST, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:  
 
 Espen Martinsen <esm at pogostick.net> writes:

> Hi,
>   Im running on a Lenovo T530, and everything works just fine.

> $ uname -v
> illumos-94cc9d8feb
>
>
> Are you sure you are on a x64 platform?
> $ psrinfo -vp
> The physical processor has 4 cores and 8 virtual processors (0-7)
>   The core has 2 virtual processors (0-1)
>   The core has 2 virtual processors (2-3)
>   The core has 2 virtual processors (4-5)
>   The core has 2 virtual processors (6-7)
>     x86 (GenuineIntel 306A9 family 6 model 58 step 9 clock 2400 MHz)
>       Intel(r) Core(tm) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
>
>
> $ isainfo -v
> 64-bit amd64 applications
>         fsgsbase rdrand f16c vmx avx xsave pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1
>         ssse3 popcnt tscp cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc
> cx8 tsc
>         fpu
> 32-bit i386 applications
>         rdrand f16c vmx avx xsave pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt
>         tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu
>
> $ pkg list system/virtualbox
> NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION                    IFO
> system/virtualbox 6.1.16-2020.0.1.0          i--

reader > psrinfo -vp
The physical processor has 2 virtual processors (0-1)
  x86 (GenuineIntel 206C2 family 6 model 44 step 2 clock 3067 MHz)
        Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU          X5675  @ 3.07GHz

reader > isainfo -v
64-bit amd64 applications
        pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp cx16 sse3 sse2 sse 
        fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu 
32-bit i386 applications
        pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 
        sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu 

reader > pkg list system/virtualbox
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
system/virtualbox                                6.1.16-2020.0.1.1          i--      


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Espen Martinsen <esm at pogostick.net> writes:

> On 11/19/20 3:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Installed it on a oi VM running our latest ISO offering.
>
> Ooops, I'm not sure if it's intendion is to run a hypervisor within
> another hypervisor, is that what you are trying to do?

I wondered if that might be an issue.

Apparently it is.

I really didn't want to try it on my actual hardware, a little worried
about making a mess of my existing VMs on it.

I guess I will have to brave up and try it or go to an older version
of Oracles releases.

Thanks for you time and effort


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