On 2017-04-13 10:06 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
On 14.04.2017 05:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
Geoff Nordli <[email protected]> writes:
basically the answer is this:
build# pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.1.18-SunOS-amd64-r114002.pkg . all
Transferring <SUNWvbox> package instance
build# rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall
build# sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap
build# pkgadd -d . SUNWvbox
I've only used the gui to work with vms so I have a bit of learning to
do.
I don't understand what is different about hipster that it just
absolutely cannot handle the pkgs on offer at Vbox. I mean the ready
made binaries.
Hi.
This is not about OI, it's about VirtualBox. You take binaries,
compiled for another OS
(some Solaris version, likely post-split) and run them on OI. The
fact, that they worked till now
is a pure luck. Now they added explicit dependency on old compiler,
which is evidently
used by Solaris, but has never been used by OI (/dev or /hipster).
Should we import outdated
and unsupported compiler version just to run one specific application?
I don't think so.
Luckily it's open source, and we can recompile it. Aurelien has a
working component,
and he will likely put it for review when he has free time (he can't
work on OI in 24x7 rhythm).
When he does this, you can help with reviewing and testing.
For now Geoff proposed working workaround.
---
Yes, I echo those comments.
Virtualbox is an excellent hypervisor. Hopefully a package can get
created for OI and can also be used on on Omnios.
Just a thought, you can probably stick with the 5.0.x series for now.
That is what I am running now on production systems and it is good
enough. I normally don't upgrade to the current release until it the
current branch stabilizes. I just started looking at it a few weeks
ago, because I figured it was getting fully baked.
If you are doing servers you are going to want to get the SMF service
wrapper by Jim.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/
Have a great day!!
Geoff
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