[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox status?

Carl Brewer carl at bl.echidna.id.au
Wed Sep 6 21:25:02 UTC 2023


On 25/08/2023 9:17 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote:

> 
> YES, the GUI still doesn't work, HEADLESS does.
> 
> Some (x11-)libs are not gcc-10 yet..
> 
> (i had at least one lib where 'gmake test' did have no positive tests :-/)

Is this now a "Wait for us to fix it" issue? I don't have the skill or 
resources (AFAIK) to be involved in recompiling/porting to gcc-10.


> 
> For those who need the gui, use 
> pkg://openindiana.org/system/virtualbox@6.1.40-2022.0.0.0:20221108T082551Z
> 
> pfexec pkg install 
> pkg://openindiana.org/system/virtualbox@6.1.40-2022.0.0.0:20221108T082551Z
> pfexec pkg freeze virtualbox

Would "freeze" break later updates?  VB is up to 7.0.10 now, so this 
one's lagging a bit.

Thank you

Carl




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