On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
1) The ATA driver in OpenSolaris does not recognized an emulated Intel 82371SB controller which is what QEMU uses. So I can't try installing in an emulated machine. This is true of all four of the OpenSolaris distributions I tried to boot -- GnuSolaris alias Nexenta, Belenix, SchilliX, and Solaris Express. Obviously they are all built on the same foundation.
That foundation would be Solaris 10, so whatever drivers Solaris 10 for x86 supports is pretty much going to be the limit. This, sadly, is annoying.
I did my install in the latest VMware Server (1.0.3 i believe) and everything "just worked". I gave it 512MB ram and 8GB of disk, and let it do it's automagical things whenever it offered the option.
4) I let the installer choose the disk partitioning scheme, and haven't checked to see whether ZFS is involved in any way. Will do that later. Also will check to see if LVM tools are present.
Solaris and all the OpenSolaris derivatives are unable to boot from ZFS as yet, so the default install gave me:
512MB swap 7.5GB / (UFS)if I want to play with ZFS, I'll have to add another virtual disk or two to the VM.
So -- I'm not quite ready to install this on my main working system.
Nor I. It feels basically like an OpenSolaris core with a thick blanket of Ubuntu wrapped around it; all the SUNW packages are installed as .debs and managed via the APT tools. all the core system utilities are from solaris, but the rest of userspace is very GNU. For me, it feels like the best mix, since I usually ended up installing all the GNU tools from sunfreeware.com anyway, and built all my stuff with gcc, back when I had Solaris systems. Ending up with basically the same setup from a fresh install that includes APT tools is just a bonus.
I'm going to keep the VM around and experiment with it in my spare time. If I feel especially brave, I'll try installing it on a spare machine some time later.
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