This page links to old vmware install instructions that don't work. http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/sliminstall.html
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. :) 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? BTW: where the heck is the xorg setup file now on OpenSolaris? I'm used to finding it at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. 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? On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Sean Sprague <sks at cvok.co.uk> wrote: > Joel, > > OpenSolaris 2008.05 installed fine on my VMware Workstation 6.0.3 >> build-80004 on Windows XP Pro 32-bit. However, when I try to install the >> VMware tools I get a black blank screen after the startup console messages >> have gone by and X should be starting up the login manager. Luckily I've got >> a snapshot taken just after the OS install to go back to. I've tried >> several variations on the VMware tools install (like selecting "no" when >> asked to create an xorg settings file). But so far I've not had any other >> outcome besides this black screen when X should be starting. I can ssh to >> the system, but have not been able to fix it and always have to go back to >> the post-install snapshot. >> >> > > I am sorry to not be able to help with the above problem, but I would ask > "why do you need VMware Tools?" I have previously used Solaris and > opensolaris in a VMware machine without the tools installed... Anyways, > since Sun's purchase of Innotek, VirtualBox is becoming the "standard" (or > at least I hope)... > > Much of the instructions posted at >> http://opensolaris.org/os/article/2006-02-27_getting_started_with_opensolaris_using_vmware/are >> no longer relevant to the 2008.05 release and it would have been nice if >> someone could have noticed that prior the 2008.05 release. This article is >> linked to for instructions on how to install 2008.05 on VMware... >> >> > > Now this is the current state of the nation: opensolaris.org is the home > for matters to do with opensolaris (the codebase and associated community). > OpenSolaris.com is the site for matters related to OpenSolaris (the distro > and burgeoning community). Thus the fact that the instructions that you > refer to are not relevant to 2008.05 (the distro) is not a failing; but if > the link that you mention is on opensolaris.com and points to a document > on opensolaris.org that does not work for 2008.05, then it is the link is > probably at fault. > > These are evolving times... > > Regards... Sean. > > This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-help mailing list >> opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080522/38772591/attachment.html>
