This relates to getting a better display for an OmniOS guest running on a Linux host.
I've installed version 6 of virtualbox using the .run script for all (inc Slackware) linux hosts. At the moment installing an illumos variant on hardware isn't an option.
I did a basic install of OmniOS before on version 5 of vbox, then bootstrapped pkgsrc, etc for extra packages like the modular xorg-server and the xfce desktop, openbox, etc.
However, the problem with the guest additions is that when you insert the iso, it does not automount in /media or appear on the desktop. I was able to manually mount the image to a folder and do a pkg add for the 'Solaris Guests' package, but then I get an error saying it was unable to find Xorg.
A couple of youtube videos I was following suggest that this could be because, by using pkgsrc, xorg will not be in its usual place in the /usr branch somewhere - which makes sense. Also, there is a guide here:
https://geekblood.wordpress.com/2017...ent-on-omnios/
Which suggests you should specifically install the xf86-video-vesa driver for virtualbox, but 'it will not be fun because of a current incompatibility'.
Anyone know if this is even possible and what I should be adding to the basic system to get this to work? Or give up and just set up something like X11 forwarding instead if I want to look at a desktop sometimes?
