Hi, I want to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Microsoft 2008 with Hyper-V.
As some of you know the Hypervisor had some issues with the legacy network card. These problems have been fixed with SP2 and it was running perfectly. But now it seems that something weird is going on. My previous installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11 is now unable to start the gui. The screen remains white and nothing more happens. Without any further investigation I decided to jump right on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and to reinstall the OS. Now the installer is also refusing to start the gui - even in vesa mode - and I think this is related to the same problem. I have heard that the emulated graphic card is some S3 compatible device. This unusual choice by Microsoft caused some trouble to Linux distros as well. Still it has been running before so something must have been changed or fixed now. This is really a setback since I was very pleased that the network card problem has been fixed by Microsoft. How can I convince Microsoft to further investigate this issue? Is there some cooperation between Sun and Microsoft to ensure compatibility between Hypervisor and OpenSolaris? Is there some interest on your site to address or circumvent the problem? Are there some tests / commands I could execute from the shell to refine the analysis? Thanks, Holger Schmeken -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
