Hello James! > Gday Hakim, > I don't know of a specific vbox-on-Solaris/OpenSolaris list, > though I agree that there's probably a need for one. > Have you wandered through the forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org/?
Yep, I think that would be in order. There're a lot of unresolved issues with vbox-on-(open)solaris AFAIAC, speaking from a user perspective. The vbox mailing list seems to have very few people using OpenSolaris hosts and the forums are quiet on the issues I've experienced. > Would you care to detail your "odd issues" on this list? It's > as good a place as any right now. Sure, here's a copy'n'paste from my vbox list posts: ------------------------------------- Concerning host interface networking: From: "S. Hakim Hamdani [ML]" <[email protected]> Organization: Eroteme.org To: vbox-users at virtualbox.org Subject: Host Interface Networking on OpenSolaris hosts... Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:25:41 +0430 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1-csw (GTK+ 2.12.3; i386-pc-solaris2.8) Hi All, tried to setup HIN today, but ran into the following problems: When executing (as root) /opt/VirtualBox/vnic_setup.sh 0:1:4a:f2:31:34 I am told this: Invalid link name: LINK When I do /opt/VirtualBox/vnic_setup.sh 0:1:4a:f2:31:34 vnic900 I am told this: vnic900 Afterwards, ifconfig -a shows no change. Of course, since no new interface was created, vnic_term.sh doesn't work either: /opt/VirtualBox/vnic_term.sh vnic900 ifconfig: unplumb: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: vnic900: no such interface dladm_name2info: object not found And not specifying the vnic name, produces this: /opt/csw/bin/sudo /opt/VirtualBox/vnic_term.sh Missing VNIC interface name. Short of setting everything up by hand, can anyone suggest why this may not be working as it should (as per the user manual)? Thanks! Hakim ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- And more importantly right now for me, concerning shared folders: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:36:52 +0430 From: "S. Hakim Hamdani [ML]" <[email protected]> Subject: [vbox-users] VBOX 1.6.2 / OpenSolaris host / WinXP SP3 guest: shared folders broken To: vbox-users at virtualbox.org Message-ID: <20080703123652.00007d63 at asagao-jkk.greatwinter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi All! I've posted this before when I was still running 1.6.0. Lately I upgraded to 1.6.2 and reinstalled the guest additions to make sure everything is up to date. I am using an OpenSolaris host, build 86, on an MSI laptop with Intel Core Duo, plenty of RAM, a fast hard disk drive and Intel 945 graphics chipset. My guest is WindowsXP SP3, 768 MB RAM, 64 MB VideoRAM, a 7 GB virtual drive, ACPI enabled, IO APIC / VT-x / AMD-V / PAE/NX all disabled, PCnet-Fast III via NAT enabled, and one shared folder, within my home directory with read-write permissions for all. Inside the guest, I can connect the shared folder as a network drive. However: - all files in there are listed with 0 kb size, both in normal Explorer view as well as in the properties dialogue of Windows - as of VBOX 1.6.0 I was still able to start installers and the like from there, and they would run, as of 1.6.2 that is not possible, I receive the following message: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them." - When I try to copy them to the local virtual drive, I am told "Cannot copy file: Cannot read from source disk." (in VBOX 1.6.0 I was still able to copy but the resulting files were always 0 kb in size). - I CAN create new files via the right-click dialogue, contrary to files I put in from the "UNIX side" I can open these, too, and for example write in a text file. This does not however work for more involved file types like Corel graphics etc. I CANNOT delete them afterwards. Again, I am told "Cannot read from source disk." So, in summary, shared folders are completely unusable at the moment on an OpenSolaris host with WinXP SP3 guest. At least for me. This is completely reproducible and I'd love to hear if anyone can suggest a fix. Without the possibility to use shared folders, productivity becomes pretty low as I have to divert everything via network servers to get a local file into the local virtual machine. The install of WinXP is pretty minimal and the following programs are installed: 7-zip, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Adobe Shockwave Player, CCleaner, CorelDraw X3, Irfanview, JavaRE, Office 2003, Firefox, NOD32, O&O Defrag, Revo Uninstaller, Spybot, SuperCopier 2, xVM Guest Additions, and some Windows updates. I look forward to hearing from anyone who might be able to shed light on this problem. I've disabled all programmes that may hinder disk access such as SuperCopier, NOD, etc. but the situation doesn't change. Thanks for reading, Hakim -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- A few digests later, I ran into a guy who also uses an OpenSolaris host and he had this to say: Message: 2 Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:59:05 -0500 From: Jerry K <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vbox-users] bridged network access with OpenSolaris To: VirtualBox end user list <vbox-users at virtualbox.org> Message-ID: <48722129.8070802 at oryx.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello Hakim, I must have missed your original note concerning bridging on OpenSolaris hosts, but at least we have consistent results. Maybe this will work in VirtualBox 1.7. As far as shared folders not working on OpenSolaris hosts, I am sure that I saw that documented somewhere, but at the last Dallas/Fort Worth OpenSolaris user group meeting, VirtualBox was the presentation topic, and it was discussed that shared folders on OpenSolaris host would not work under VirtualBox 1.62. Jerry K ----------------------------------------------------------------- So, judging from that, unless it's my particular setup here, neither bridged networking nor shared folders currently work on OpenSolaris hosts, basically rendering it a nice but useless virtual machine. If you have any pointers or info that may help, I'd be very happy to hear about it. Best wishes, Hakim -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org
