> W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >>> Attached is a screenshot showing Indy2 running in >>> SXDE4 under VirtualBox. >>> >> >> I know I am getting carried away, but-- >> >> I used to work in Exxon's Prudhoe Bay field (at that time it was producing >> close to 2 million barrels of oil a day). Located near the Arctic circle, >> there were times I was wondering whether the sun would ever come back out >> again. Of course I was being silly. >> >> As Mario passionately pictured, there were also times many of us wondered >> whether we would EVER be able to run Solaris as a VirtualBox host. Silly >> again. :-) >> >> However, it should be noted that the Solaris port of VirtualBox is only a >> beta, and it came out, AFAIK, only yesterday. I am sure there are many >> loose ends that need to be taken care of. Some of the inadequacies are >> major, e.g., it does not seem to have the NIC driver (for Solaris host), >> yet. But if my experience at Prudhoe Bay could be of any help (to me >> anyway), the Sun will always come out shinning. >> > > The driver needed is pcn which is non-redistributable so Indiana does not > bundle it. But SXDE does bundle the driver, so the NIC works. See here: > > http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/entry/kicking_both_tyres_together_virtualbox
The pcn driver is just terrible. Closed. Not at all reasonable. The ae driver from Masayuki Murayama is what we need : # modinfo | grep -i pcnet 141 f9ac9000 c05c 232 1 ae (pcnet driver v2.6.0) That thing is rock solid. And open. but it isn't here yet : http://opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/files/ Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
