Hi Bill,
Thanks for taking time to write up this draft addendum, I agree with
your approach. I copy docs-discuss here in order to reach more technical
reviewers of the content below.
I found one editorial nit:
[mo-1] All the work of getting things working under VMware has been
already done you.
^for
FYI, original article is posted here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/article/2006-02-27_getting_started_with_opensolaris_using_vmware/
Thanks in advance to those who can help out with this technical review.
Regards,
Michelle
Bill Rushmore wrote On 09/12/07 05:14 PM,:
> Below is a preliminary write up for the update to the VMware article.
> At this point I am looking for technical reviews. In particular if
> there are any issues or topics that I might have missed that should be
> addressed.
>
> My thought is that I could publish this as a stop gap and then do a
> complete rewrite of the original article.
>
> Bill
> rushmores.net
>
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>
>
> Installing OpenSolaris on VMware ? Addendum
>
>
>
> Much has changed since the original version of this article was written
> from about a year and a half ago. Today Solaris is now officially
> supported as a guest operating system in VMware. But more importantly
> there are distributions based on OpenSolaris that offer prebuilt VM
> images. So if you are someone that just wants to give a OpenSolaris
> distribution a try then things could not be easier. Just download the
> Solaris or the Solaris Developer Edition images from here
> <http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp%20>
> and for a VM image of NexentaOS go here
> <http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download>. All the work of getting
> things working under VMware has been already done you. One other thing
> of note is that there is a free VM player from VMware
> <http://www.vmware.com/products/player/> so you don't even have to buy
> anything! Also free is VMware server which used to be called GSX. For
> some people this might all they might need.
>
>
> If you plan on doing any serious development work with OpenSolaris then
> most likely you want to install it yourself on VMware Workstation. One
> warning that should be mentioned. At the time of writing the latest
> builds of OpenSolaris does not appear to boot on VMware ESX. The last
> build that I know of that still works is build 57. This is problem is
> being addressed by the Sun Engineers so hopefully by the time you read
> this it will be working. If not you will can still use VMware
> Workstation, Player, or Server.
>
>
> As for installing OpenSolaris on VMware there really isn't anything
> special. You can just follow the instructions that come with VMware for
> Solaris 10. In Workstation select Help->Guest Operating System Install
> Guide. If you are not interested in installing the VMware tools you are
> done. However, if you plan on doing much interaction with the desktop
> then for you probably will want to install the tools. However, since
> VMware only supports Solaris it will have a problem with the
> installation. Here is a hack to trick the tools installer:
>
>
> 1. Install VMware tools as you normally would but say no to run
> vmware-config-tools.pl at the end of the install.
>
> 2. As root cd into /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg
>
> 3. Create this sym link: ln -s 7.0 7.1
>
> 4. Now run vmware-config-tools.pl
>
> 5. At some point it will asks where to put the modules, enter this:
> /usr/X11/lib/modules
>
> 6. Do not let it create a xorg.conf file, the one created by the script
> has errors and will leave you with no X.
>
>
> One more thing to note from the original article, the OpenSolaris
> installation program has gone through drastic changes. It is much easier
> now. And nothing in particular unique to VMware for the install.
>
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