{"id":452,"date":"2014-03-18T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.tuxie.eu\/?p=452"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T09:55:52","slug":"solaris-11-1-installation-in-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/it.tuxie.eu\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Solaris 11.1 (x86-64) installation in VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned before, I hate dogmas. Very brief information leads to distorted judgments frequently. And it would be really pitty to say 1) Solaris needs SPARC for running and 2) Everything including install is really hard. Well, 2x no<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Downloading and installing<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can download Oracle Solaris 11.1 through this page<\/a>. Please have on mind that x86 means really architecture – Solaris 11.1 is only 64-bit operating system – and x86 is mentioned just to distinguish this architecture from SPARC. And please also invest time for license reading. There were many changes during last year.<\/p>\n

Create new Virtualbox machine, consider your options and Solaris 11 requirements (2GB minimum for running seemed to me very low) – I choose 8GB RAM allocation (counting with ZFS, java graphical environment and Oracle\/DB2 databases running), 4 cores. After mounting iso (sol-11_1-live-x86.iso<\/strong> this time, graphical install mode), installer will run. After few minutes of waiting…<\/p>\n

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…you will be asked for keyboard layout and install language (both default values = English). After another few moments you will see classical (GNOME 2) gui:<\/p>\n

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Installer looks really familiar (at least for those who already installed Oracle database :-D):<\/p>\n

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6 steps (without first and last page) and installation is done? You must be joking, that seems much better than many linux distributions!!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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No other choice…<\/p>\n

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Now few words – as you know, UEFI is unfortunately here. Solaris 11.1 is (U)EFI compliant operating system. BIOS Boot Partition is essential (and if you check this partition after installation, it will have BOOT flag). So don\u00b4t be scared and continue \ud83d\ude42 (more information about boot process can be found here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Nice! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Basic user information, no surprises till now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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If you have subscription, don\u00b4t hesitate to admit it…<\/p>\n

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Final step. Is it possible? Really? Wow again! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Installation in progress…..<\/p>\n

After rebooting I bet the first thing you want to do (if you plan to really use this virtual appliance) is installing Virtualbox Additional Tools.<\/p>\n

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Virtualbox Host Tools installation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Connect VBOXADDITION content from Devices menu.<\/p>\n

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You can see file called „VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg“. What a surprise! Not really, Virtualbox belongs to Oracle (thx Sun), Solaris belongs to Oracle (thx Sun). Ok, enough of irony.<\/p>\n

Now the mos beautiful part of installing. Those who are familiar with installing Tools with linux knows that there must be headers, gcc and few others packages installed in system. Well, everything you know about linux troubles, forget it!<\/p>\n

All is done by one simple command. Interesting!<\/p>\n

root@solaris:\/home\/j\/Desktop\/some# pkgadd -d .\/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The following packages are available:<\/span>
\n\u00a0 1\u00a0 SUNWvboxguest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (i386) 4.3.8,REV=r92456.2014.02.25.18.34<\/span><\/p>\n

Select package(s) you wish to process (or ‚all‘ to process<\/span>
\nall packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: <\/span><ENTER><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Processing package instance <SUNWvboxguest> from <\/home\/j\/Desktop\/some\/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg><\/span><\/p>\n

Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions(i386) 4.3.8,REV=r92456.2014.02.25.18.34<\/span>
\nOracle Corporation<\/span>
\nUsing <\/> as the package base directory.<\/span>
\n## Processing package information.<\/span>
\n## Processing system information.<\/span>
\n## Verifying package dependencies.<\/span>
\n## Verifying disk space requirements.<\/span>
\n## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.<\/span>
\n## Checking for setuid\/setgid programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user<\/span>
\npermission during the process of installing this package.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWvboxguest> [y,n,?] y<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Installing Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions as <SUNWvboxguest><\/span><\/p>\n

## Installing part 1 of 1.<\/span>
\n\/etc\/fs\/vboxfs\/mount <symbolic link><\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/1099.vboxclient<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/LICENSE<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/VBox.sh<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/VBoxClient<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/VBoxClient.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/VBoxControl.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/VBoxService.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/pam_vbox.so<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxfs<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxfs_s10<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxfsmount<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxmslnk<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_110.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_111.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_112.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_113.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_114.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_13.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_14.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_15.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_16.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_17.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_18.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_19.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_70.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/amd64\/vboxvideo_drv_71.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/VBoxClient.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/VBoxControl.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/VBoxService.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/pam_vbox.so<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxfs<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxfs_s10<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxfsmount<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxmslnk<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_110.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_111.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_112.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_113.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_114.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_13.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_14.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_15.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_16.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_17.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_18.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_19.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_70.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/i386\/vboxvideo_drv_71.so.Z<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/solaris_xorg.conf<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/solaris_xorg_modeless.conf<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/vboxclient.desktop<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/vboxguest.sh<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/x11config15sol.pl<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/x11restore.pl<\/span>
\n\/usr\/bin\/VBoxClient <symbolic link><\/span>
\n\/usr\/bin\/VBoxClient-all <symbolic link><\/span>
\n\/usr\/bin\/VBoxControl <symbolic link><\/span>
\n\/usr\/bin\/VBoxService <symbolic link><\/span>
\n\/usr\/kernel\/drv\/amd64\/vboxguest<\/span>
\n\/usr\/kernel\/drv\/amd64\/vboxms<\/span>
\n\/usr\/kernel\/drv\/vboxguest<\/span>
\n\/usr\/kernel\/drv\/vboxguest.conf<\/span>
\n\/usr\/kernel\/drv\/vboxms<\/span>
\n\/usr\/kernel\/drv\/vboxms.conf<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGL.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGLarrayspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGLcrutil.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGLerrorspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGLfeedbackspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGLpackspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/VBoxOGLpassthroughspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGL.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGLarrayspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGLcrutil.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGLerrorspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGLfeedbackspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGLpackspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/lib\/amd64\/VBoxOGLpassthroughspu.so<\/span>
\n\/usr\/sbin\/vboxmslnk <symbolic link><\/span>
\n[ verifying class <none> ]<\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/VBoxControl <linked pathname><\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/VBoxISAExec <linked pathname><\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/VBoxService <linked pathname><\/span>
\n\/opt\/VirtualBoxAdditions\/vboxmslnk <linked pathname><\/span>
\n[ verifying class <manifest> ]<\/span>
\n## Executing postinstall script.<\/span>
\nUncompressing files…<\/span>
\nConfiguring VirtualBox guest kernel module…<\/span>
\nVirtualBox guest kernel module loaded.<\/span>
\nVirtualBox pointer integration module loaded.<\/span>
\nCreating links…<\/span>
\nInstalling video driver for X.Org 1.12.2…<\/span>
\nConfiguring client…<\/span>
\nInstalling 64-bit shared folders module…<\/span>
\nInstalling 32-bit shared folders module…<\/span>
\nConfiguring services (this might take a while)…<\/span>
\nEnabling services…<\/span>
\nUpdating boot archive…<\/span>
\nDone.<\/span>
\nPlease re-login to activate the X11 guest additions.<\/span>
\nIf you have just un-installed the previous guest additions a REBOOT is required.<\/span><\/p>\n

Installation of <SUNWvboxguest> was successful.<\/span>
\nroot@solaris:\/home\/j\/Desktop\/some# <\/span><\/p>\n

After this quick installation process without any troubles I was really suspicious. According my experiences in linux (I have installed this Tools in linux environment let\u00b4s say for 500x times) I KNEW that there must be some „but“ \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After rebooting, everything related to Additional Tools went fine. Just fine. 1 point for this incredible and the real one ENTERPRISE operating system!<\/p>\n

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