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[request] virtualbox #133
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To be honest it's unlikely to be something that we would work on, but it would be great to see the community provide some patches, it should certainly be possible to build.
I know, already being able to boot ISO via
bhyvekinds of limits usefulness of Virtualbox. But Virtualbox covers a different use case that, say, Windows on bhyve.Let's hope somebody in
pkgsrccommunity will give a hand. It would be quite nice to have.Thank you!
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on Mar 26, 2019 on oi-hipster, the vbox in IPS is now almost up-to-date: v6.0.4
Reacted by PriyadarshanIf it may help, OmniOS added Virtual Box towards the end of last year, still on 5.2.28 though.
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Virtualbox ia available as Solaris binary file, but it does not install on OmniOS becasue of missing dependencies. OpenIndiana has a wiki page about it.
Virtualbox seems to be available in the pkgsrc's WIP branch.
Would it be possible to add Virtualbox to Joyent's pkgsrc at some point?