On Feb 14, 2008, at 14:23, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>> 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 >>> >> >> Shure you cannot use the "ae" driver that comes wich SchilliX? >> > > Yes, Masayuki-san's ae driver should work. Forgot about that. > Indiana > does not include that since it is not yet in ON.
Indeed, I installed ae by following the instructions in the readme and have DP2 working in VirtualBox on Mac OS X - should work for other OpenSolaris distros on other platforms as far as I can see. S. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
