Well, I've got Solaris 10 running on my Imac, after a fashion. I used the very recently announced Virtualisation software from Parallels (www.parallels.com), using their trial version.
You basically create a virtual machine and point it at an ISO and tell it to boot from that. I had the original Solaris 10 build as an ISO on my hard disk (you don't have to burn a dvd), and pointed the VM at that. You then get the usual Solaris installation and 40 minutes later I have a booted Solaris 10. (Pretty picture screen capture at http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/124692623/) I had a quick guess at the configuring the X server and the screen came up ok, but I must have got the keyboard wrong as I can't type anything ! psrinfo -v - shows a 2000Mhz i386 processor (but only 1 of them !) It boots in about 30 seconds so it's pretty quick, and I think the installation could be speeded up by storing the ISO image on a seperate disks (there was a lot of disk activity during installation). Parallels supply a network driver which I'll try out this weekend, but this is looking like a good solution for anyone who doesn't want to dual boot. I did try build 36 of Solaris Express but I ran into an odd problem which I've seen before (which I posted here : http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7562&tstart=0 but haven't seen any response yet. Hope this helps, I'll update if I make any progress over the weekend, but I have got decorating to do ! Richard This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
