On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:04:34PM -0700, Lei Jin wrote: > This is a simple question but important to me. Since our dept. only > has solaris machines, which I cannot change the OS. However, my > research would require some modification to the OpenSolaris > kernel. Obviously, compiling the kernel on simualtor would be toooo > slow. So is it possible to compile the opensolaris kernel on > Solaris? Are they compatible? Thanks a lot!
Solaris contains OpenSolaris, so in general the answer is yes. However, that only holds for the same version or build number. You cannot, for example, build (or run) a current OpenSolaris kernel on Solaris 8, 9, or 10. Check out the release notes for ON (which contains the kernel) at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris and the known issues page (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/known_issues/) for information on the requirements to build the latest sources. There's some chance that it's possible, with some work, to build recent ON on the latest S10 update, but I'd lay heavy odds against it. To learn more about the relationship between OpenSolaris and Solaris, see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#opensolaris-solaris or http://whacked.net/2005/06/21/confused-so-was-i/. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
