Multiple installation problems with Oracle Solaris 10u11 and VB 4.2.10

[Mounty1]

1. The Solaris packages SUNWdtrp and SUNWmdu (!) are dependencies because the postinstall script refers to drivers that they include; but the two packages are not specified as dependencies in the VB package.

2. SUNWgccruntime is also an unspecified dependency because the zoneaccess service requires libgcc_s.so.1 but in this case it's still wrong because /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxZoneAccess can't find the library so it is necessary to modify the start method (as is done in OmniOS for example) thus:

       <exec_method
           type='method'
           name='start'
           exec='/opt/VirtualBox/VBoxZoneAccess'
           timeout_seconds='10' >
           <method_context>
               <method_credential user='root' group='root' />
               <method_environment>
                 <!-- Gross hack, to pick up the right library -->
                 <envvar name='LD_LIBRARY_PATH' value='/usr/sfw/lib/amd64' />
               </method_environment>
           </method_context>
       </exec_method>
   

so that the start command is:

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib/amd64 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxZoneAccess

[Mounty1]

3. Running VB in a zone also fails, even when all the above is done:

   -bash-3.2$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib/amd64 /opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox
   ld.so.1: VirtualBox: fatal: libstdc++.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory
   Killed
   -bash-3.2$ find /usr -name libstdc++.so.6 -ls
   140030    1 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Mar 31 10:08 /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.3
   140033    1 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Mar 31 10:08 /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.3
   -bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6
   lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          18 Mar 31 10:08 /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.3
   -bash-3.2$ ls -Ll /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6
   -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin      5626864 Mar 28  2012 /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6
   -bash-3.2$ file /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6
   /usr/sfw/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so.6:      ELF 64-bit LSB dynamic lib AMD64 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped
   

So VB reports that a needed shared object is missing, even though it is present.

[Mounty1]

Correction to the description: s/SUNWmdu/SUNWmdr/

[Mounty1]

​https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2020573 has the solution in this case.

This is a 3 1/2 year old bug with a simple solution.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.