[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to downgrade virtualbox from latest version

[Till Wegmueller]

Hey Harry

That sounds like a version mismatch between guest tools and Host
Virtualbox. Can you make sure the guest has only the pkg provided
virtualbox extensions installed? And not the ones via ISO.

Greetings
Till

On 19.11.20 14:09, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: running latest updates of OI/hipster on;
> HDW: HP wx8600 2x XEON 5600
> 
> psrinfo -vp
> 
> The physical processor has 4 virtual processors (0 2 4 6)
>   x86 (GenuineIntel 1067A family 6 model 23 step 10 clock 3333 MHz)
>         Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU           X5470  @ 3.33GHz
> 
> uname -a
>   SunOS 2x 5.11 illumos-f0b6369dcf i86pc i386 i86pc
> -------       -------       ---=---       -------       ------- 
> 
> I'm having problems with virtualbox running on above hardware since a
> recent upgrade that put me at version:
> 
>   system/virtualbox                                 6.1.16-2020.0.1.1
> 
> During bootup I see about only 2/3 of character space of the
> lines. The bottom 1/3 is gone.
> 
> Keyboard does'nt function at all after logging in.
> 
> During login when pressing keys it only leaves a tiny mark that looks
> something like an inverted dash followed closely by an
> apostrophe. Only at about 1/5 size, and high on what would be the text
> line.
> 
> No normal letters appear as I press keys to login, only the tiny thing
> described above. But if I type the uid and password with the right
> keys, even though they do not appear in the txt boxes, I can still
> login.
> 
> Once logged in keyboard does not make any kind of marks in xterm or
> any other tools that require text input.
> 
> But again I can run commands if I'm careful about getting the keys
> right.  Once I press `enter' the command runs and the keys typed then
> appear on the xterm.
> 
> This all started following an update of openindiana-2020:11:02.  A few
> days later really since I didn't reboot right away.
> 
> Updated again openindiana-2020:11:17 but the problems persist.
> 
> Do we maintain any of the older versions of virtualbox somewhere that
> I can install with pkg command?
> 
> 
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