SolitaryGeek

Also have openSlaris running using vmware workstation, as before I had separate partition where openSolaris was installed. Now that virtualization is on good level, with CPU that has extended set of instructions to speed up virtualization process. Use it only to see how openSolaris is shapping up and to keep up with trend.

You think VirtualBox is better option than VMware for running openSolaris on Linux, 64-bit versions of both?

Also have openSolaris running using vmware workstation, as before I had separate partition where openSolaris was installed. Now that virtualization is on good level, with CPU that has extended set of instructions to speed up virtualization process. Use it only to see how openSolaris is shapping up and to keep up with trend.

You think VirtualBox is better option than VMware for running openSolaris on Linux, 64-bit versions of both?

The window decorations (metacity?) don’t look to good.

What version of gnome is this running?

They have been working on Open Solaris a lot I see.

Too bad their hardware support is pretty bad.

E@zyVG,

Get the latest version of VirtBox. A key component that has been added is PAE kernel support. That makes loading the Ubuntu platforms a breeze now. No more kernel rebuilds. I put it on par with VMWare these days.

Besides I expect that VirtBox will survive long after VMWare is RIP. WMWare is having tough times and it will get tougher as nobody will pay for a Virt app that they can get for free from their OS provider of choice.

I believe it shipped with gnome 2.20.
All your cool features that you mentioned come stock with any linux desktop w/gnome. Try openSuSE, I think it has all of those same features as well as excellent hardware support. It takes absolutely no effort to install in virtualbox.

I think OpenSolaris is using Nimbus look and feel. I didn’t mention that these cool features are available only in OpenSolaris, I know it comes with every linux distro which uses a gnome desktop. This article didn’t compare OpenSolaris with any other linux distro, it merely projects how OpenSolaris looks and feels.

Oh, Thanks! Really funny. keep working!

i see, you have a package manager. why i have no package manager in solaris express b95? is it intended? thanks

I’m running OpenSolaris on VirtualBox on Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit. No problems. Very easy to install and use. It’s a bit different from Linux, isn’t it? No sudo? What’s that all about?

One question, though. I would prefer to run a 64-bit version of OpenSolaris if I could find one. Any suggestions?

“No sudo?”

Instead, role based access control – finer control of who can do what: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/rbac/

Today VB v2.0 was released. It installs 64bit guest OS, but the host needs to be 64bit as well. One of the things I like with VB, is that the install file is 20 MB. How big is VMware? A whole CD?

The main advantage of VB is that it handles more OSes than any other virtualization software. It installs on more hosts, and installs more guests: Win 3.11, NT, XP, Vista, OS/2, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, ReactOS, NextStep, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X (with hack and license key), etc.

What did you do to configure the network? I seem to get a 10.0.2.15 ip address but cannot access anything outside the machine.

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SJ:

OpenSolaris will pretty much autoconfigure the network, but it is still Unix, and sometimes you need to use ifconfig and other network configuration tools. Look at /etc/defaultrouter.

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sudo? Easily added with ‘pkg’, or download from solaris freeware.

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64-bit — Note that VirtualBox 2.0 can run 64-bit clients, but needs VT support — not available with older Intel processors. (e.g., your mileage may vary)

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Kudos to VB 2.0 — First look is very promising…!!!

Hi SJ,
Plz ensure that you choose the right network interface in the virtual box for your guest opensolaris machine. That should solve the problem.

Where are the graphics? I got only blank boxes.

How does it do with multimedia apps? Is it OK?

I installed xVM 2.0.2 on windows XP, and opensolaris 2008.05 as a guest. Sound does not work out of the box (I just downloaded the latest audiohd driver to see if that will help), but the 10.0.2.15 network address is working fine. Let me caveat that I have norton internet security firewall installed in XP, and I could not browse the internet with firefox until I told the firewall to let virtual box have internet access. YMMV.

when i install open solaris live media in my system boot menu starts with”stag2″and when I click”b” on the line “open solaris gnome version”booting started and warning kernel not fit into the memory(when i alloted 10 GB space also.that’s what the problem which iam facing.Then how can I install open solaris.

i love free source. do u ever trying opensolaris10 for x86 on virtual box ?

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 …..

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.

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 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

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>!@%**()-+++===——

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

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.

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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?