This is great news@ Thanks for sharing, it is worth trying out. I too had VBox uninstallabel on Hipster.
Hope patches could find a way to upstream or building it inside OI for Hipster. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:18 PM, russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought I would let you know that I have unsuccessfully installed > VirtualBox 4.3.28 and successfully installed VirtualBox 5.0.2. > > The procedure I followed was to download Jim Klimov excellent > vboxconfig.sh script which I used to replace the default one in > /opt/VirtualBox, which permitted v4.3.28 to be completely removed. > > After downloading VirtualBox 5.0.2 and extracting the pkg file > > # gzip -d -c VirtualBox-5.0.2-102096-SunOS.tar.gz | ( cd /tmp ; tar xf - ) > # cd /tmp > # pkgadd -d ./VirtualBox-5.0.2-SunOS-amd64-r102096.pkg > > This will proceed normally until the it fails with post processing, here > Jim's modified script is copied into /opt/VirtualBox containing v5.0.2 > application. Now run, Jim's modified script as follows > > # cd /opt/VirtualBox > # ./vboxconfig.sh --postinstall > > VirtualBox installation completes. I have found that it constantly on > VirtualBox startup it has VirtualBox Warning about disk image files, one or > more is missing but the VMs work okay so far. > > Russell > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
