Installing Virtual Box 4.2.8 on OiOS (Openindiana)

Virtual Box is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 visualisation product for enterprise supported by OiOS.Installation by terminal script seems to achieved installation successfully.

Example script used is as follows.

Virtual box 4.2.6

su
password

cd /var/tmp
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.6/VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-SunOS.tar.gz
tar xf VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-SunOS.tar.gz
pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.2.6-SunOS-r82870.pkg

Virtual box 4.2.8

Su
password

cd /var/tmp
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/VirtualBox-4.2.8-83876-SunOS.tar.gz
tar xf VirtualBox-4.2.8-83876-SunOS.tar.gz
pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.2.8-SunOS-r83876.pkg



N.B. These scripts are not guaranteed in anyway and the version codes must be updated with each release.