[desktop-discuss] VirtualBox Beta on OpenSolaris

[Brian Nitz]

Rich,

If you've downloaded the amd64 version, run isainfo -v to make sure 
you're booted in 64 bit mode. Some of us are running in 32 bit mode 
because our wifi hardware requires nasty NDIS drivers which aren't 64 
bit ready :-/

Several VirtualBox startup scripts are bash scripts and they expect bash 
to be in /bin/bash. On Solaris Nevada bash is in /usr/bin/bash. So edit 
all of the scripts in /opt/VirtualBox to point to /usr/bin/bash instead 
of /bin/bash. Its also possible that some of the VirtualBox package 
postinstall scripts also use #!/bin/bash but after fixing the runtime 
scripts, I was able to get VirtualBox to run on an AMD64 on Build 84 by:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/VirtualBox
VirtualBox


Rich Teer wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Darren Kenny wrote:
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>   
>> Oh well, that was worth a try ;)
>>     
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> Yep!
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>> The only other thing that I can think of is that you have some KDE configuration
>> lying around that is possibly effecting how QT (the toolkit used in VirtualBox)
>> is behaving...
>>     
>
> Bummer; I've never used KDE so that's not likely...  :-(
>
> To rule out oddities with my user, I think I'll add a new user just
> to test VirtualBox out.
>
> Many thanks for the help.  Does anyone else have any ideas?
>
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