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<p>Ram,</p>
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<p>As far as I'm aware, there's no way to automatise it, although I find it better than nothing to benefit from the IPS packaging rather than the SVR one.</p>
<p>On another side, we can still display a big fat warning when the user is trying to install/upgrade with the instructions to get this done the proper way.</p>
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<p>What do you think? Could this be integrated?</p>
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<p>Le 2014-04-02 11:29, ramshankar venkataraman a écrit :</p>
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<p>Ram,</p>
<p>Thanks for your answer.</p>
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<p>1. Yes</p>
<p>2. Yes, considering that you need to run an 'svcadm restart virtualbox-run-once' service that gets installed with the first installation. Then, when an upgrade is done, this service is responsible to upgrade drivers and/or services at its next start. (so either manually, or, indeed after a reboot).</p>
<p>Does that make sense?</p>
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<br /> So it requires manual running of a service to make the upgrade work? Is it possible to automate this somehow as part of the IPS upgrade procedure itself?<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Ram.<br /><br />
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<p>Le 2014-03-31 13:49, Ramshankar a écrit :</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br /><br /> Thanks for the work and the heads up, but before I look into this, a couple of questions:<br /><br /> 1. Does the installation work without requiring reboots (drivers are loaded and active after installation)? <br /><br /> 2. Does upgrading VirtualBox versions work without requiring reboots (old drivers are unloaded, removed and new ones are installed and loaded) ?<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Ram.<br /><br /> On 03/30/2014 03:42 PM, Thomas Gouverneur wrote:</div>
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<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I'm writing today because I've been asked some time ago to write a converter from SVR to IPS packages for VirtualBox to allow the installation of VirtualBox and of the extension pack through IPS. I wonder now if this work can be useful upstream too?!</p>
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<pre>I published the scripts there: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/tgouverneur/VBox-SVR2IPS">https://github.com/tgouverneur/VBox-SVR2IPS</a>
And an example repository can be found there: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/vbox/en/catalog.shtml?show_all_versions=1&action=Refresh">http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/vbox/en/catalog.shtml?show_all_versions=1&action=Refresh</a>
The repository has been built with the VirtualBox.org's packages converted using the scripts present inside the GitHub repository listed below.
NOTE: This repo has only been tested with Solaris 11.1.
Any idea with who I could start the discussion to see what would those package be missing to allow a possible upstream adoption, so we can all have IPS upstream packages of VirtualBox in the future?
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