Latest Solaris 11.2 is unable to run VirtualBox

[Randy Crihfield]

Systems are AMD based Solaris 11.2 boxes.

sunbox% uname -a SunOS sunbox 5.11 11.2 i86pc i386 i86pc sunbox% cat /etc/release

Oracle Solaris 11.2 X86

Copyright (c) 1983, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Assembled 28 May 2013

sunbox%

Yesterday everything was fine on them but we did an OS update to this via "pkg update --install" to update the entire OS.

Repository is the latest and greatest internal to Oracle nightly, ​http://ipkg.us.oracle.com/solaris11/dev/

after upgrading here, I get VERR_ACCESS_DENIED and NS_ERROR_FAILURE messages in the log file. Attempting to launch ANY image is impossible.

Attemted diagnosis: this machine has been running VB for just about forever. Even so, I uninstalled SUNWvbox and blew away user's .VirtualBox subdir. I completely reinstalled using the 4.2.12 packages and extension kit

pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.2.12-SunOS-r84980.pkg VBoxManage extpack install --replace <ext pack, the latest>

I checked that I was in the group, etc

The main dialog launches but trying to select File->Preferences crashes it. I tried adding an image cleanly, no problem. But booting the image again shows me the NS_ERROR_FAILURE.

It looks like there was something introduced in the latest Solaris 11 that you didn't expect.

[Alan Coopersmith]

The crash on opening the Preferences dialog is most likely due to Solaris bug 16855717, which is fixed in 11.2 build 16, and has a workaround of copying libX11.so.4 from an older build.

[Randy Crihfield]

Verified, I updated to the latest which is

jacey@pollux -> cat /etc/release

Oracle Solaris 11.2 X86

Copyright (c) 1983, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Assembled 10 June 2013

and the problem is resolved. Great!

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the information!