Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst writes: [...] >> >> The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but >> it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox >> GUI. that it may only be capable of creating 32 bit vms/. >> >> Do you see something like th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst writes: Harry wrote: >> Please see my most recent response to Predrag B. >> >> The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but >> it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox >> GUI. that it may only be capable o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but >> it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox >> GUI. that it may only be capable of creating 32 bit vms/. >> >> Do you see somethi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
On 01/24/18 15:15, Harry Putnam wrote: Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian 9.3 as guests on an HP Z400 I followed the wiki instructions. Here are the scripts I used: # cat tst1 #!/bin/sh pkgtrans VirtualBo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: > I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian > 9.3 as guests on an HP Z400 I followed the wiki instructions. Here > are the scripts I used: > > > # cat tst1 > #!/bin/sh > pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst writes: > On 01/23/18 03:51, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I see threads periodically about problems installing Virtualbox on a >> recently updated oi. And some success stories too, but I really would >> like to see a summary of how to attempt to install late

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: > # cat tst1 > #!/bin/sh > pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.pkg . all > rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall > sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap > pkgadd -d . SUNWvbox > > # cat tst2 > #!/bin/sh > VBoxManage extpack install > Oracl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst [...] > Hi, > > There is (beside Jim's solution) another one (I am using it for recent > versions on my /hipster OI): > > $ pfexec pkgrm SUNWvbox > > $ tar xf VirtualBox-5.2.6-120293-SunOS.tar.gz > $ pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.6-SunOS-amd64-r120293.pkg . a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian 9.3 as guests on an HP Z400 I followed the wiki instructions. Here are the scripts I used: # cat tst1 #!/bin/sh pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.pkg . all rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall sed -i /checkinstall/d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-22 Thread Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
On 01/23/18 03:51, Harry Putnam wrote: I see threads periodically about problems installing Virtualbox on a recently updated oi. And some success stories too, but I really would like to see a summary of how to attempt to install latest vbox. I think that would be 5.2.6 currently. Something tha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I see threads periodically about problems installing Virtualbox on a recently updated oi. And some success stories too, but I really would like to see a summary of how to attempt to install latest vbox. I think that would be 5.2.6 currently. Something that would give a not so adept person runnin