Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
Re: uninstalling -- Thank you. I've been using Solaris and the pkg commands since 1990 (US Navy computer tech). lfe...@yahoo.com, Norfolk VA, 23503 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 02:15:20 PM EDT, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions, L: > So as I read this, I recalled installing GA using pkgadd. So I looked in > my VM and I find a /usr/sbin/pkgadd command. OI has support for the older Solaris packages, but the newer IPS-style packages are preferred. You installed the guest additions from Oracle, which are packaged in the older format. Until about the last 3 months, those were the only guest additions available for OI. Thanks to Michal, Alexander, and probably others, OI now has a package in IPS format for the guest additions, installable directly from the openindiana.org repo. If you decide to switch to the OI package for system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions , be sure you uninstall the SVR4 format guest additions package first. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions, L: So as I read this, I recalled installing GA using pkgadd. So I looked in my VM and I find a /usr/sbin/pkgadd command. OI has support for the older Solaris packages, but the newer IPS-style packages are preferred. You installed the guest additions from Oracle, which are packaged in the older format. Until about the last 3 months, those were the only guest additions available for OI. Thanks to Michal, Alexander, and probably others, OI now has a package in IPS format for the guest additions, installable directly from the openindiana.org repo. If you decide to switch to the OI package for system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions , be sure you uninstall the SVR4 format guest additions package first. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
So as I read this, I recalled installing GA using pkgadd. So I looked in my VM and I find a /usr/sbin/pkgadd command. root@oi:~# ls -l /usr/sbin/pkgadd-r-xr-xr-x 2 root sys 137476 Jun 26 23:59 /usr/sbin/pkgadd root@oi:~# pkg search -l /usr/sbin/pkgaddINDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGEpath file usr/sbin/pkgadd pkg:/package/svr4@0.5.11-2018.0.0.18656 lfe...@yahoo.com, Norfolk VA, 23503 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Monday, July 1, 2019, 12:25:30 PM EDT, Chris Game wrote: Thanks for the pointers to the guest additions package. I installed that and set up a shared folder using the Devices, Shared Folders, Shared Folder Settings menu item in the OI guest. This worked well, so thanks, somewhat delayed owing to a mail filter foul up at this end. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
Thanks for the pointers to the guest additions package. I installed that and set up a shared folder using the Devices, Shared Folders, Shared Folder Settings menu item in the OI guest. This worked well, so thanks, somewhat delayed owing to a mail filter foul up at this end. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
On 06/22/19 01:33 PM, Chris Game wrote: Further to previous post: The hipster release notes tell me that guest additions is 'integrated' so no need for any other package to be installed, yes? It means that OI provides the required package in it's repositories and you are not expected to install those services from the Guest Additions CD/ISO. On the OI window (on VirtualBox) there is a message: "The VirtualBox Guest Additions do not appear to be available on this machine, and shared folders cannot be used without them To use shared folders inside the virtual machine, please install the Guest..." What? What is the VirtualBox version on the host? What is the system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions version in the OI guest? Did you updated (`pkg update -v`) OI after the installation? (You should.) And what's wrong with the command: "# mount -F vboxfs " specified in the VirtualBox manual? the response to this is: "mount: Operation not applicable to FSType vboxfs" I tested automounted shared folder on OI host/OI guest with system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions and it worked. As root I can see content of the shared folder. Michal On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Chris Game wrote: Part way to setting up sharing folder with OI guest on windows10 host. Message tells me that I need to install guest additions. Now the VB guest additions CD when mounted has a VBoxSolarisAdditions pkg file but how to install this? The old pkgadd command isn't available and pkg requires manipulating publishers and what not. Is there a package available in the standard OI repo that installs guest additions? Or if not what is the recommended way to get this working? The ultimate aim is to get a sharing folder mounted in OI which is visible from the Windows host Thanks for any help and advice. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
Further to previous post: The hipster release notes tell me that guest additions is 'integrated' so no need for any other package to be installed, yes? On the OI window (on VirtualBox) there is a message: "The VirtualBox Guest Additions do not appear to be available on this machine, and shared folders cannot be used without them To use shared folders inside the virtual machine, please install the Guest..." What? And what's wrong with the command: "# mount -F vboxfs " specified in the VirtualBox manual? the response to this is: "mount: Operation not applicable to FSType vboxfs" On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Chris Game wrote: Part way to setting up sharing folder with OI guest on windows10 host. Message tells me that I need to install guest additions. Now the VB guest additions CD when mounted has a VBoxSolarisAdditions pkg file but how to install this? The old pkgadd command isn't available and pkg requires manipulating publishers and what not. Is there a package available in the standard OI repo that installs guest additions? Or if not what is the recommended way to get this working? The ultimate aim is to get a sharing folder mounted in OI which is visible from the Windows host Thanks for any help and advice. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions, Chris...: Part way to setting up sharing folder with OI guest on windows10 host. Message tells me that I need to install guest additions. Now the VB guest additions CD when mounted has a VBoxSolarisAdditions pkg file but how to install this? The old pkgadd command isn't available and pkg requires manipulating publishers and what not. Yeah, I wouldn't use the one from the virtual CD. Is there a package available in the standard OI repo that installs guest additions? Yup! On the OI guest: pfexec pkg install system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions Or if not what is the recommended way to get this working? The ultimate aim is to get a sharing folder mounted in OI which is visible from the Windows host I'm doing the opposite: I have an OI hipster workstation that's the host, and a Windows 10 guest. I've been able to make the shared folder work just fine going that direction, so I suspect you'll have the same experience. Shared clipboard is also working well between the two. Only thing I miss right now is USB passthrough, but I haven't had enough cycles to even begin to look at that. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
On 06/21/19 10:09 PM, Chris Game wrote: Part way to setting up sharing folder with OI guest on windows10 host. Message tells me that I need to install guest additions. Now the VB guest additions CD when mounted has a VBoxSolarisAdditions pkg file but how to install this? The old pkgadd command isn't available and pkg requires manipulating publishers and what not. Is there a package available in the standard OI repo that installs guest additions? Or if not what is the recommended way to get this working? It is expected to install with elevated privileges 'system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions', a package we provide, and restart: $ pkg install -v pkg:/system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions The ultimate aim is to get a sharing folder mounted in OI which is visible from the Windows host I tested this with OI as a guest and a host. Should work with VirtualBox 6.0.8. Michal Thanks for any help and advice. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions
Part way to setting up sharing folder with OI guest on windows10 host. Message tells me that I need to install guest additions. Now the VB guest additions CD when mounted has a VBoxSolarisAdditions pkg file but how to install this? The old pkgadd command isn't available and pkg requires manipulating publishers and what not. Is there a package available in the standard OI repo that installs guest additions? Or if not what is the recommended way to get this working? The ultimate aim is to get a sharing folder mounted in OI which is visible from the Windows host Thanks for any help and advice. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
