[OmniOS-discuss] VirtualBox 5.1 - Missing dependencies

[Volker A. Brandt]

Hi Dale!


Sorry, I let this slip a bit...

> > On Mar 29, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Dan McDonald writes:
> >> Ideally someone would package it on OmniOS itself for OmniOS.
> > 
> > Would that be permitted by the VirtualBox license?  Shouldn't be too
> > hard if it is just repackaging...
> 
> Preferably it would also be natively built. One of the unfortunate legacy
> aspects is that VirtualBox’s notion of “SunOS” is Oracle Solaris and stays
> absolutely true to that expectation. This was certainly an issue with the
> vbox add-ons and the vboxfs driver no longer building or working on illumos,
> as it was expecting symbols that were introduced in later versions of Oracle
> Solaris 11 but are not present in illumos, which still self-identifies as
> the same.

The other day I installed the most recent VBox guest extensions on
OmniOS bloody.  They installed fine (as described in later mails in this
thread), and vboxfs works flawlessly. In fact, I have used an image from
my shared home folder to bring up an LX branded Centos 7.3 in Omnios in
VirtualBox under macOS 10.12 without a hitch. :-)


Regards -- Volker
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