Comments on: Stunning OpenSolaris running on VirtualBox

By: TurboDad

TurboDad — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:11:44 +0000

I wasn’t able to get OpenSolaris to run on VirtualBox at all. I’m running a Turion64 CPU on Windows Vista with 4GB RAM, and running VirtualBox 2.4. Using 2008.11 or 2009.06, my install just locked up right after it started booting. See:

http://blog.reevestech.net/2009/07/i-still-really-want-to-try-opensolaris/

Any ideas?

By: Business Linux

Business Linux — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:18:54 +0000

Open Solaris runs very well in a VirtualBox VM and also natively on any quality AMD or X86 Hardware. The really beautiful thing about VirtualBox 2.2 is that you can concurrently run, Windows XP Pro, Open Solaris and even Mac OS X Leopard in VirtualBox VMs on a 64 Bit Mepis Linux installation. (Quad Core CPU, 4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, USB, LAN etc…) All 32 Bit Client OSes run so close to native speed that it is hard pick that you’re actually in a VM.

Great Products from Sun Microsystems (and Innotek).

For expert advice and installation / integration services of 64 Bit Linux systems see the Business Linux Blog.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:40:35 +0000

Hi,

I can only go up to 1024 x 768 on my resolution for Opensolaris 2008.11. I don’t have any higher resolution. How do match my windows resolution to my virtual box resolution? Please advice.

Regards,
Sam

By: Dale DeWitt

Dale DeWitt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:52:54 +0000

I’m only virtualizing OSol, so I can’t really tell how much it helps. ZFS is a neat idea, though”"

Virtualbox with zfs makes it a split in preference. You can manually get rid of snapshots in zfs (default hourly) to hone into the prior preferred state or you can just bypass and rely upon virtualbox snapshots. Practically they should complement each other, but realistically it’s a question of which is easier. I prefer one backup barrier snaphot in virtualbox. Work close to that edifice and things are simple. I believe the time slider can give you a clue as to where the time element belongs when destroying snapshots in zfs. Or you can think forward and make clones. All in all it’s a bit of work to use bare-metal and virtualbox opensolaris definitely has its advantages over that, say aside from the fact that currently the windows virtualbox doesn’t support sound>!@%**()-+++===——

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:24:53 +0000

“By the way, what’s so good about ZFS? I haven’t noticed a difference with Opensolaris or Solaris 10 as far as structure goes.”

That’s the point. ZFS doesn’t partition the drive in the same sense as other *UXes do. It also functions like a RAID setup when using multiple drives. Other features include read/write checksums, and other things that open-source folks wanted from a file system.

Currently, I’m only virtualizing OSol, so I can’t really tell how much it helps. ZFS is a neat idea, though

By: wan acceleration technologies

wan acceleration technologies — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:07:17 +0000

John sums up telepresence from a network perspective, “Telepresence is an interactive real- time application, which means it is delay sensitive, loss sensitive and jitter sensitive. This sounds familiar: it is just like VoIP, with the one difference being that it has huge bandwidth requirements.” It’s that last part that makes things more difficult. No form of QoS can allocate bandwidth that doesn’t exist and it doesn’t have provisions to force the application to downscale the experience based on realtime metrics. …

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:52:36 +0000

I think that Opensolaris (2008.05) is pretty good, but I like Solaris 10 a lot better, except for the fact that it is a lot of trouble to unzip packages and create new users. Ubuntu is also a formidable opponent. Opensolaris doesn’t come with Openoffice preinstalled, tho, which is kind of a bummer if u don’t have a fast connection to the internet, as it doesn’t come with any other office software other than a PDF viewer… Overall, it is a very good operating system.
… By the way, what’s so good about ZFS? I haven’t noticed a difference with Opensolaris or Solaris 10 as far as structure goes.

By: Intel Software Network Blogs » OpenSolaris Student Edition

Intel Software Network Blogs » OpenSolaris Student Edition — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:13 +0000

[...] I tried this out on my new Intel Centrino2 processor-based laptop. The LiveCD came up like a dream (with even the audio working out of the box). The VirtualBox image installed without a hitch and gave me the glories of a more complete stack, preinstalled into the image. (Actually, I downloaded the most recent version of VirtualBox, rather than using the one on the DVD.) You can see some screen shots of this operation over at this guy’s blog. [...]

By: Have you tried OpenSolaris yet? | lab209

Have you tried OpenSolaris yet? | lab209 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:28:52 +0000

[...] Here are a couple of screenshots of OpenSolaris running within VirtualBox (via jamesselvakumar’s blog) [...]

By: rahul

rahul — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:55:03 +0000

Hi james,
I installed Open Solaris in Virtual Box , but im not able to configure IP address for virtual machine, i changes my setting nwam to default and i made changes in netwotkk setting , whn i do ifconfig -a it show the ipadress properly , but im not able to access internet

any Suggestion …..