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Installing VirtualBox on OpenSolaris 2008.11 with Package Manager

Posted by Lenz Grimmer on

While VirtualBox is available as a downloadable OpenSolaris package from the download page at virtualbox.org, I find it much more convenient to use the Package Manager GUI or pkg on the command line to install and update packages.

Sun provides a VirtualBox IPS package (and some others like Flash Player) from a separate "extras" repository. However, you need to obtain a key and SSL certificate before you can access this repository, which are available for free from https://pkg.sun.com/register/ after logging in with your Sun Online Account.

Once you obtained and installed these files in /var/pkg/ssl (detailed instructions are provided on the download page), you can add this repository as another "authority" and start looking at what packages are provided:

$ pfexec pkg set-authority \
            -k /var/pkg/ssl/OpenSolaris_extras.key.pem \
            -c /var/pkg/ssl/OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem \
            -O https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra extra
$ pkg list -a 'pkg://extra/*'
NAME (AUTHORITY)                              VERSION         STATE      UFIX
SUNWadmj (extra)                              0.5.11-0.101    known      ----
SUNWjsnmp (extra)                             0.5.11-0.101    known      ----
SUNWwbapi (extra)                             0.5.11-0.101    known      ----
SUNWwbcou (extra)                             0.5.11-0.101    known      ----
SUNWwbdev (extra)                             0.5.11-0.101    known      ----
virtualbox (extra)                            2.0.6-0.101     known      ----
virtualbox/kernel (extra)                     2.0.6-0.101     known      ----
web/firefox/plugin/flash (extra)              9.0.125-0.101   known      ----

So there is not that much to download by now - some additional Java packages and the Flash plugin for Firefox. There is no package for VirtualBox 2.1.0 yet, but I hope this will be updated soon...

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