Thanks to a comment made by Maria on my blog, I tried installing the new version of OSS drivers, and am happy to say that the sound now works in OpenSolaris in VirtualBox on Mac OS X! Thanks, Maria!
Here's what I did:
# pkgrm oss (to delete the old version I installed previously)# rebootDownload the new oss driver file, oss-solaris-v4.0-1016-i386.pkg, from www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi
(select Solaris 10/11 x86/AMD64 in the list).
# pkgadd -d oss-solaris-v4.0-1016-i386.pkg# rebootRun osstest after the OS comes back up, and listen to the music! Sounds great.
UPDATE 8/13/08: I think I spoke too soon. The sound is very flaky, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I am not sure what is happening.
Tried this. It didn't work at all for me.
Posted by Peter Large on September 01, 2008 at 05:41 PM EDT #
Peter, here's a blog with some additional pointers that may help: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/sound_in_virtualbox_from_macos
Posted by Brian Leonard on September 09, 2008 at 08:26 AM EDT #
Yes!! Thanks very much. I followed these instructions and have got the sound to work, even though it's intermittent
Posted by Peter Large on September 09, 2008 at 10:12 AM EDT #
For anyone who is interested, this also works on VMware Fusion.
Posted by Ken Joy on December 04, 2008 at 07:18 AM EST #