Hi Michael,

Results with virtualbox have been mixed, NCP has issues on certain versions/hosts, and works flawlessly on other hosts. Only way to know is to give it a go. From what I understand, it works well with the latest verison of Vbox. Let us know of you success (or not).

Were you trying to install ubuntu Vbox on Nexenta? That wont work.. Nexenta uses Opensolaris as the kernel, and native Linux binaries dont run on solaris.

~Anil

Thanks for the reply Anil,

Do you have any references for how to get VB installed.

This is the the other way I have tried with the solaris version: sudo alien -i VirtualBox-3.1.2-SunOS-r56127.pkg

And the output I get is messy: ld.so.1: pkginfo: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.7: open failed: No such file or directory

Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Pkg.pm line 167. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Pkg.pm line 178. sh: line 1: 445 Killed /usr/bin/pkgtrans VirtualBox-3.1.2-SunOS-r56127.pkg pkg-scan-tmp.440 > /dev/null 2>&1 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Pkg.pm line 180. Couldn't open 'pkg-scan-tmp.440//pkginfo': No such file or directory

I would really like to get this sorted out. Nexenta feels real solid, my shares and pool are running very smooth. I dont know maybe I am not using alien right.

Mike

Libssl issue has been seen before. The workaround is to install it from elatte repository. http://apt.nexenta.org/dists/elatte-stable/main/binary-solaris-i386/oldlibs/libssl0.9.70.9.7g-5nexenta3solaris-i386.deb

You can retry after installing this manually. I know Andew Stormont has been trying to get Vbox running on StormOS, perhaps he can help.

~Anil

Anil,

Once again you were very helpful. I got the Libssl installed with no issues (for those that want to know that link does not work, just chop of the file and then select the file in the directory listing) The install of vbox still runs into more package errors but it builds a good part of a new package folder when I run "sudo alien -vci ..." on the vbox install pkg. I am going to attach the output. there are serveral uninitialized values again comming form missing packages again I would believe. At the end of the error messages there is a list of packages: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sunwvbox: sunwvbox depends on sunwpython; however: Package sunwpython is not installed sunwvbox depends on sunwpython-devel; however: Package sunwpython-devel is not installed. sunwvbox depends on sunwuiu8; however: Package sunwuiu8 is not installed. dpkg: erro processing sunwvbox (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Erros were encountered while processing: sunwvbox

So my guess would be that I have to install these manually as well. "man alien" says something about .pkg files have a dependency problem. I guess I will try to track these down in that same repository you gave me Anil.

If anyone has any input please feel free to chime in.

packages that are needed: sunwpython, sunwpython-devel, sunwuiu8

I was not able to find any of these three in the repository. If someone else knows where I can find them please let me know.

Mike

packages that are needed: sunwpython, sunwpython-devel, sunwuiu8

IMO these should be added the the 'Provides' of nevada-compat.

Andrew Stormont wrote:

packages that are needed: sunwpython, sunwpython-devel, sunwuiu8

IMO these should be added the the 'Provides' of nevada-compat.

Hi Andrew

Does it make sense to port Vbox from Ubuntu? Sun^wOracle provides the Vbox SVR4 package.. and we can simply have a debian wrapper over it. Saves a lot of effort.

~Anil