Hi Dale!
Sorry, I let this slip a bit... > > On Mar 29, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Volker A. Brandt <v...@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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss