Joel, > This page links to old vmware install instructions that don't work. > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/sliminstall.html
I see this link. If you are certain that the instructions do not work for 2008.05, then please write website-discuss to inform them. > OpenSolaris is running simultaneously with other VM's in VMware on the > system in question. All the other VM's can run VMware tools. I like > the pointer integration and copy-paste integration. It makes my life > a lot easier. I suspect the VMware tools network driver is better, > but I don't have objective data on that so far. :) I suspect (but have no proof) that VirtualBox will do this stuff; and when you acquire some demonstrable proof that VMware tools' network driver is "better", then please feed back to Sun - a new version of VirtualBox (1.6.0) has recently been made available; and I suspect that further development is ongoing. > Is the OpenSolaris community stance to not use VMware anymore? I'm > not excited about having to run multiple VM hosts on the same system. > Can VirtualBox use my existing inventory of VMware guest images? Or > would I have to spend a couple of weeks doing new installs into > VirtualBox? My knowledge of VirtualBox does not stretch this far :-( As for community stance on not using VMware, the community makes its own stance, and I suspect that no single person is qualified to make a definitive direction statement; especially not me ;-) > BTW: where the heck is the xorg setup file now on OpenSolaris? I'm > used to finding it at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. 2008.05 does not come with a default xorg.conf file AFAICT - you need to generate one with Xorg -configure (although I know 2/3 of bugger-all about Xorg). > As a side note: I realize that unixy people are used to case > sensitivity. But really, how are most people supposed to keep track > of the difference between "opensolaris" and "OpenSolaris"? If we had > a verbal conversation about this instead of a text conversation how > would anyone be able to tell the difference? This is purely my personal style choice - "opensolaris" confers ".org" - the codebase and associated community; and "OpenSolaris" confers the recently-released open source distro and the community that is growing around it. Currently I know of no verbal means of differentiating between them. This is something that will need to be addressed in the very near future; both for verbal and mailing-list reasons IMO - acronyms or completely new and distinct are required.... Regards... Sean.
