Index: /trunk/src/VBox/Installer/solaris/vboxconfig.sh
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--- /trunk/src/VBox/Installer/solaris/vboxconfig.sh	(revision 43798)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/Installer/solaris/vboxconfig.sh	(revision 43799)
@@ -787,4 +787,22 @@
 }
 
+# is_process_running(processname)
+# returns 1 if the process is running, 0 otherwise
+is_process_running()
+{
+    if test -z "$1"; then
+        errorprint "missing argument to is_process_running()"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    procname=$1
+    procpid=`ps -eo pid,fname | grep $procname | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'`
+    if test ! -z "$procpid" && test "$procpid" -ge 0; then
+        return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+
 # stop_process(processname)
 # failure: depends on [fatal]
@@ -796,4 +814,5 @@
     fi
 
+    # @todo use is_process_running()
     procname=$1
     procpid=`ps -eo pid,fname | grep $procname | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'`
@@ -926,6 +945,5 @@
 
     # Stop our other daemons, non-fatal
-    stop_process VBoxSVC
-    stop_process VBoxNetDHCP
+    stop_process "VBoxNetDHCP"
 }
 
@@ -1114,4 +1132,11 @@
 {
     fatal=$1
+
+    is_process_running "VBoxSVC"
+    if test "$?" -eq 1; then
+        errorprint "Cannot uninstall VirtualBox while VBoxSVC is still running."
+        errorprint "Please shutdown all VMs and VirtualBox frontends before uninstalling VirtualBox."
+        exit 1
+    fi
 
     cleanup_install "$fatal"