On 3/2/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is also another way to get OpenSolaris to almost everyone's hands > > which I have been advocating. That is with VMware (Virtual PC works too, > > but not as good). Once people start using it, they'll like it and make > > sure their next machine will work with Solaris. > > I am working right now on VMWare Workstation 5.5 on RHEL AS 64-bit. > > The system is an IBM e325 server with dual AMD248 Opterons and not > nearly enough RAM. Only 1Gb. [...] > What really irks me is that there is no support for 64-bit hardware > even though the host OS is 64-bit.
There are additional processor requirements for 64-bit guests - see: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#bb_64 For Opteron you need rev E or higher. Andy _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
