On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 21:48 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> > > >>> 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. > > The driver has a really funny backround: > > A few days after the first SchilliX was out in 2005, i received a mail that > SchilliX was not able to see the MIC in VMware. This was a Saturday. > > I decided to send a mail to Masayuki-san on Saturday night before going to > bed. > After I woke up on Sunday in the morning, I checked my mail and the driver > source was in ;-) > > So the ae driver is in since SchilliX-0.2
However, it was badly broken for amd64 for VMware, so I sent another e-mail to Masayuki-san and then he fixed it for Nexenta Alpha 5 too. :-) It is rock solid driver these days. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
