Dave Miner wrote: > Strange that it doesn't. > Well, the reward for my efforts and installing the guest components for Solaris was that the X server tried to come up with something that looked like 2000x1600 (given where the sliders were on my laptop display) and stayed black. The initial install offers text login and that worked, but the post 'update all' BE wouldn't play.
I couldn't immediately see what's wrong so I've wiped it and just downloaded VBox 2.06 which, as expected, has Solaris guest additions that seem to Just Work so far. Its not a great customer experience and I've been a happy VMWare Workstation user for a long time - and I believe that last time I installed Ubuntu it detected the VMWare environment during installation and I didn't need to do much afterwards - I don't need the shared storage etc. Would it be too much to ask that the release cds, which will surely be used for casual testing in VMs, should include all the necessary device drivers for popular VM environments in the default probe? I know I like Solaris and I've spent 2 decades using it at work, and that its worth persevering - but I doubt I'm in the majority in this when trying out these shiny new versions. If the install is tricky then perhaps provide a pre-installed image for common VMs? James (And once installed it IS nice. The package manager looked so much like Synaptic I thought maybe it was based off the same code - except that seems slower and has a bit less info. And its in Python! Why? I mean, I like Python, but should this be a showcase for Java? Maybe now JavaFX is out we'll get a new version as a showcase for that. Oh wait - JavaFX isn't out on Solaris! Doh!)
