Opened 6 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#18428 closed defect (fixed)
VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests -> fixed in 6.0.6 and after (not in) 5.2.28
| Reported by: | Michael Thayer | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Solaris | Host type: | other |
Description
See forum topic 91108<1> and summary. This is possibly due to uname(2) returning non-zero on success on Solaris.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
| Summary: | VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests → VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests -> fixed after (not in) 6.0.4 |
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Confirmed fixed on the forums. The fix will be in 6.0 Additions test builds after revision 128880, once they are uploaded.
comment:3 by , 5 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests -> fixed after (not in) 6.0.4 → VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests -> use VBoxVGA with Solaris |
As there are additional problems with VMSVGA and Solaris, and no clear advantage over VBoxVGA (notably no acceleration in Solaris with VMSVGA) I will mark this as "won't fix".
comment:4 by , 5 years ago
| Resolution: | wontfix |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
| Summary: | VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests -> use VBoxVGA with Solaris → VBoxClient --vm-svga fails with "Failed to get kernel name" on Solaris guests -> fixed in 6.0.6 and after (not in) 5.2.28 |
Re-opening this, as it apparently affects Solaris guests using vboxvideo too.
comment:5 by , 5 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
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