Update --

VirtualBox for 32 bit x86 OpenSolaris host is now available for download at virtualbox.org

32 bit VirtualBox

My previous blog entry gave instructions for building a 64 bit version of VirtualBox on OpenSolaris. To get the 32 bit version some simple changes have to be applied to the instructions.

• Do this on a system booted in 32 bit mode.
• In the configure step for libqt, change "solaris-g++-64" to "solaris-g++".
• Every place that says "/opt/qt64", should be "/opt/qt32" or whatever you'd rather use.

Binary Install Instructions

Also people have been asking for directions on how to install the 64 bit binary download for OpenSolaris available at virtualbox.org. This should work:

joe% gunzip VirtualBox-opensolaris-amd64-1.5.51-r28040-beta1.gz
joe% su
Password:
# pkgadd -d ./VirtualBox-opensolaris-amd64-1.5.51-r28040-beta1
...
# exit

Now you just need to modify your environment and run VirtualBox:

joe% setenv PATH /opt/VirtualBox:/opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/bin:${PATH} 
joe% setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/VirtualBox:/opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} 
joe% VirtualBox