VirtualBox v1.6 on Solaris 10 5/08 - alt.solaris.x86

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John Doe

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From: John Doe <john....@jasspa.com>

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:48:35 +0100

Local: Sun, May 11 2008 5:48 pm

Subject: Re: VirtualBox v1.6 on Solaris 10 5/08

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solx wrote:
> Chris Ridd wrote:
>> On 2008-05-09 19:19:02 +0100, solx <nos...@example.net> said:

>>> hi,

>>> Just downloaded virtualbox v1.6 to run win2k for checkpoint
>>> secureclient. Unfortunately the configuration requires
>>> virtual machine to have a host direct connection; this fails
>>> as /usr/lib/vna is not available.

>>> Is this software available for solaris 10 x86?

>> Sun offer VirtualBox for Solaris 10 for download, but the package you
>> download for Solaris 10 is precisely the same as the package you
>> download for OpenSolaris. Same MD5 hash.

>> As it relies on libraries only present in OpenSolaris (eg libdlpi) it
>> simply will not work on Solaris 10.

>> This is a great shame.

>> OTOH it made me upgrade my box to OpenSolaris 2008.05 and VirtualBox
>> is running quite happily now :-)

>> Cheers,

>> Chris

> Would it be possible to add the necessary components via the software
> companion cd?

Try this link, not tried this myself but was thinking about it.

http://unixsadm.blogspot.com/2008/02/virtualbox-on-solaris-virtualiza...

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