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

[Carl Brewer]

On 20/11/2020 4:38 am, Till Wegmueller wrote:
> 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.

It's not, the problems are with the VirtualBox GUI, what happens inside 
the (I hate trying to work out how to describe GUI parts!) OS screen, is 
a symptom.

I run a bunch of virtual servers in VirtualBox, the current GUI is 
misbehaving as Harry describes, but it's workable, and I'm not affected 
by the garbled text in the client screen, because I just SSH into them 
anyway.  None of my guests have the guest tools installed at all, 
because I'm not using the GUI I never bothered. I don't think it works 
on NetBSD 5 guests anyway :)

I think Aurelian suggested it might be a mismatch with versions of some 
GUI toolkit that VB uses vs OI?

I can't post an image to the list, AFAIK, to illustrate - which would 
make it a lot easier to describe!