> > On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:40 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > That said, many of my friends are amazed to learn > that they can so effortlessly run such a highly > revered OS (the Solaris proper, not OpenSolaris--most > of them really don't care about the latter and I am > sure Oracle's people cannot avoid sensing that) on > their own notebook. The trick is to send them the > entire .VirtualBox folder--with Solaris10u8 > pre-installed, of course. All they need to do is to > install the VBox executable. > > The 'Export appliance' feature in recent VirtualBox > versions works really well, too. It's pretty easy to > package up a virtual machine and its associated disk > file in a ZIP archive and pass it around, that way. > > > -- > > David Brodbeck > System Administrator, Linguistics > University of Washington >
(Previously posted to the wrong thread.) Thanks. Oracle also provides a VirtualBox Solaris 10 10/09 Appliance Image in Open Virtual Format (OVF): https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/viewproductdetail-start?productref=virtualbox-s10u8-x86-...@cds-cds_smi This is a standard default installation of the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating system, which means that it only has the posix-C local installed. To show, say, Chinese characters, the user must subsequently install appropriate locale(s). I forgot how to do that, but if I was able to do it, then it should not be very difficult. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
