4 Guest Additions /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.0.4/uninstall.sh Please replace /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.0.4 with the correct Guest Additions installation directory. 4.2.3 Guest Additions for Solaris 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: • Solaris 11 Express • Solaris 10 (u5 and higher) • Solaris Nevada/SXDE/SXCE (build 82 and higher) • OpenSolaris (Developer Preview 2 and higher this includes OpenSolaris 2008.05, 2008.11 and 2009.06) Other distributions may work if they are based on comparable software releases. 4.2.3.1 Installing the Solaris Guest Additions The VirtualBox Guest Additions for Solaris are provided on the same ISO CD-ROM as the Ad- ditions for Windows and Linux described above. They also come with an installation program guiding you through the setup process. Installation involves the following steps: 1. 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 chapter 4.2.1.1, Installation, page 55. 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 2. Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root: pkgadd -G -d ./VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg 3. 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. 4.2.3.2 Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions The Solaris Guest Additions can be safely removed by removing the package from the guest. Open a root terminal session and execute: pkgrm SUNWvboxguest 4.2.3.3 Updating the Solaris Guest Additions The Guest Additions should be updated by first uninstalling the existing Guest Additions and then installing the new ones. Attempting to install new Guest Additions without removing the existing ones is not possible. 61