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: https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh
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 <j...@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-disc...@lists.omniti.com> Копия (Cc): tho...@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: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/7390 > 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-disc...@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:jimkli...@cos.ru | | CC:ad...@cos.ru,jimkli...@gmail.com | +============================================================+ | () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail | | /\ - against microsoft attachments | +============================================================+ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
