Finally, this combination worked and I could run crossbow early access Feb14th edition in VirtualBox.
- Solaris Express Community Edition - 1GB RAM for the machine - Default install (Solaris Interactive) The install as well as first boot (including service definitions of SMF) took a very long time. Subsequent reboots are reasonably okay. Yet to play with the actual installation. This is just an interim report. Regards, - Raju On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Raju Alluri <spurthi at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Kais Belgaied <Kais.Belgaied at sun.com> > wrote: > > > Raju Alluri wrote: > > > > > > > > > > b. Selecting Solaris Express during boot process goes a little > > > further > > > > and hangs the installation. See > > > > this picture: > > > > http://spurthi.googlepages.com/cbowcap02a.png > > > > > > > > Are we missing something? Did anyone successfully run this build > > on > > > > VirtualBox? We allocated 8GB space > > > > and 512 MB RAM, which should be good enough. > > > > > > I think the SDXE installer requires 768MB of memory. If possible, > > try > > > allocating 1 GB of memory to be on the safe side. > > > > > > > > > I tried with 1GB of memory too. Doesn't make a difference. > > > > > > The image checksums are correct. We verified that one too. > > > > do you go further when you sdo b, then select '4' > > (Solaris Interactive Text (Console Session)) ? > > > Actually, I have been trying these alternatives. > > My 6th attempt, with the following combination > - 1 GB RAM, > - Solaris Express, (Not developer express) > - Solaris Interactive Installation > seems to proceed further, but hogs my 2GB RAM desktop. 10% install done so > far. > Will keep you posted. Thanks Kais and John for taking time to respond... > > Regards, > - Raju > > > Kais. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > - Raju > > > > > > > > > -John > > > > > > > > > > > Any suggestion? TIA. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > - Raju > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Raju Alluri > http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/ > -- -- Raju Alluri http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/attachments/20080307/fd7a0b3b/attachment.html>
