Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> writes:
[...] Harry wrote: >> 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. >> > Alexander P replied: > 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 Should we import outdated 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. Heh, I'm like the blind fellow feeling an elephants tail and thinking I have hold of a snake.. Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: [...] > 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/ Thank you both for helping guide my thinking on this and getting a better understanding of how things work in hipster developement. Thanks for the URLs as well. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
