Hello all,Earlier in March I posted a patch that fixes installation of VirtualBox on non-Oracle Solaris hosts (e.g. OpenIndiana and OmniOS). Lest it be lost in the list archives, I moved the patch (now licensed as GPLv2 to match VirtualBox licensing) and an accompanying README to GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh" target="1">https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh</a>Feel free to add the changes into the distributions (if you maintain packages/repositories), so such hackery won't be needed ;)Thanks, Jim Klimov ----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: Jim Klimov <jim@cos.ru> Дата: Monday, March 16, 2015 9:30 Тема: [OmniOS-discuss] Fix to VirtualBox installer under OI/OmniOS Кому (To): openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org, omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com> Копия (Cc): thomas@espix.net > Hello all,> Earlier this month I posted to the VirtualBox lists my patch for vboxconfig.sh to better support > installation on non-Sun/Oracle Solaris-like hosts, tested on OI (Hipster) and OmniOS (bloody). > It may support SXCE as well (has the code, but was not practically tested lately) since there are > aspects where SXCE was like Solaris 10 (SVR4 packaging) and yet more advanced than that > (CrossBow, etc.).> Unfortunately, so far the post fell through the cracks... so for possible integration into packages > provided by the illumos distributions (e.g. to help the work done by Thomas Gouverneur to turn > SVR releases into IPS, or to support proper GPL-source builds of VirtualBox), I'd like to repost > these fixes here too. Feel free to build on them, to make VB updates hiccup-less ;)> In my practice, it sufficed to "pkgtrans" the Oracle VB package into a directory, patch the script > "vboxconfig.sh" provided in the installation image, update the "pkgmap" with new values for > size and checksum of the changed file, (run "pkgrm" to remove an obsoleted installation) and > "pkgadd" to install the package from the directory. > > ---> The reposted part:<a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/7390" target="1">> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/7390</a> > Date: 2015-03-09 15:09:25 GMT> Hello all,> I submit a patch which should simplify installation of modern VirtualBox on some > non-Oracle derivate distributions of Solaris which are known to host VirtualBox > just fine. Most of the patch deals with "proper" detection of major and minor OS > version numbers on those distributions. Also there is now a touchable filename > to enforce installation of USB filters and corresponding UNIX group accounts, > as a workaround for further distros not detected as supported by even new code.> I submit this patch under the terms of MIT license.> This was last tested with VirtualBox 4.3.24 and OpenIndiana Hipster and OmniOS > Bloody, all updated today to the most current states available.> Note this was not yet tested in practice with SXCE although snippets were developed > that should work there. I don't expect there are many of those installations left beside my > closet, but those are all pleased with old VBox versions for now... ain't broke, you know ;) > Hope this helps, > // Jim Klimov> > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss -- +============================================================+ | | | Климов Евгений, Jim Klimov | | технический директор CTO | | ЗАО "ЦОС и ВТ" JSC COS&HT | | | | +7-903-7705859 (cellular) mailto:jimklimov@cos.ru | | CC:admin@cos.ru,jimklimov@gmail.com | +============================================================+ | () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail | | /\ - against microsoft attachments | +============================================================+