Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Brewer
Thanks, I'll have a look. Do you know if it can run Virtualbox? On 22 April 2015 7:10:31 PM AEST, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: If you need a graphical desktop; It might be worthwhile looking at XStreamOS from Sonicle, they have done loads of work on the desktop software stack, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
As far as I know, I run the Solaris VirtualBox without trouble on my OI hipster, and I've seen discussions on the use of VirtualBox on XStreamOS. Gabriele Bulfon is the Lead on the Sonicle project, and you'll find her on these forums, and on their own forums. She's very helpful. Jon On 22

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-22 Thread DraganFOSS
On 04/22/15 12:54 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: Thanks, I'll have a look. Do you know if it can run Virtualbox? Hi Carl, VBox on my OI Hipster works without problems (except lack of USB support in guests, but this is another story..) I also tried the beta 5.0 version, but for now there are too many

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-22 Thread Al Slater
On 22/04/2015 11:59, Jonathan Adams wrote: As far as I know, I run the Solaris VirtualBox without trouble on my OI hipster, and I've seen discussions on the use of VirtualBox on XStreamOS. I run VirtualBox on XStreamOS with no issues. I have windows and omnios guests running just fine. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
If you need a graphical desktop; It might be worthwhile looking at XStreamOS from Sonicle, they have done loads of work on the desktop software stack, and have Libreoffice and Firefox, etc all working. I however have stuck with OpenIndiana, but I'm using the hipster branch, but it is essentially