# [OmniOS-discuss] VirtualBox 5.1 - Missing dependencies

Volker A. Brandt vab at bb-c.de
Mon Apr 10 20:08:29 UTC 2017

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    Hi Dale!

    Sorry, I let this slip a bit...

    > > On Mar 29, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
    > >
    > > Dan McDonald writes:
    > >> Ideally someone would package it on OmniOS itself for OmniOS.
    > >
    > > Would that be permitted by the VirtualBox license?  Shouldn't be too
    > > hard if it is just repackaging...
    >
    > Preferably it would also be natively built. One of the unfortunate legacy
    > aspects is that VirtualBox’s notion of “SunOS” is Oracle Solaris and stays
    > absolutely true to that expectation. This was certainly an issue with the
    > vbox add-ons and the vboxfs driver no longer building or working on illumos,
    > as it was expecting symbols that were introduced in later versions of Oracle
    > Solaris 11 but are not present in illumos, which still self-identifies as
    > the same.

    The other day I installed the most recent VBox guest extensions on
    OmniOS bloody.  They installed fine (as described in later mails in this
    thread), and vboxfs works flawlessly. In fact, I have used an image from
    my shared home folder to bring up an LX branded Centos 7.3 in Omnios in
    VirtualBox under macOS 10.12 without a hitch. :-)

    Regards -- Volker
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