Like the Windows Guest Additions, the VirtualBox Guest Additions for Solaris take the form of a set of device drivers and system applications which may be installed in the guest operating system.
The following Solaris distributions are officially supported:
OpenSolaris Nevada (Build 82 and higher)
OpenSolaris Indiana (Developer Preview 2 and higher)
Solaris 10 (u5 and higher)
Other distributions may work if they are based on comparable software releases.
As with Windows and Linux guests, we recommend installation of the VirtualBox Guest Additions for Solaris.
The VirtualBox Guest Additions for Solaris are provided on the same ISO CD-ROM as the Additions for Windows and Linux described above. They also come with an installation program guiding you through the setup process.
Installation involves the following steps:
Mount the
VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file as your
Solaris guest's virtual CD-ROM drive, exactly the same way as
described for a Windows guest in Sectioná4.2.1.1, “Mounting the Additions ISO file”.
If in case the CD-ROM drive on the guest doesn't get mounted (observed on some versions of Solaris 10), execute as root:
svcadm restart volfs
Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root:
pkgadd -d ./VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
Choose "1" and confirm installation of the guest additions package. After the installation is complete, re-login to X server on your guest to activate the X11 Guest Additions.
Please note that Shared Folders are not yet available for Solaris guests.
The Solaris Guest Additions can be safely removed by removing the package from the guest. Open a root terminal session and execute:
pkgrm SUNWvboxguest