> Yes..... > > I created the virtual image off the live cd but there > is no cd in the drive, in case you were wondering... > > I think that I see where you are going with > this...Since the build 130 CD uses 646MB..The > additional 21MB free is probably what was left on the > CD...So, how do I put the proper image in virtual > box? Do I have to install from the live cd image into > the virtual machine?
While I haven't done that in awhile with OpenSolaris (I've preferred SXCE as long as it was available, from long years of using CDE), I think the answer is yes. A LiveCD is typically meant to give someone a _preview_ of a system (or as a recovery boot disk, or a way to test hardware compatibility, or ...); neither a physical LiveCD nor a virtual one (iso file copy of a LiveCD attached to a virtual CD device) is really meant to be equivalent to a permanent installation _until_ it's installed; under VirtualBox, that means attaching the iso as the CD and a vdi (or other supported format of virtual drive) as a disk device, and then running the installation off of the virtual CD, just as if you were installing from a physical LiveCD into a physical system. (Hint: a virtual SATA disk controller is supposed to perform better than an IDE controller, and unlike (say) Windows XP, OpenSolaris has a SATA driver built-in, so there's no extra step needed during installation.) There are sites that distribute pre-installed VirtualBox vdi files (including for OpenSolaris, although probably not too current). I think that at one point, Sun had some evaluation DVDs (or CDs?) for colleges and such that included such an image. But I don't know if there's one that Sun is keeping current now. A shame if someone doesn't, both because (for those who already have VirtualBox or VMware installed) it's even better for familiarization than a LiveCD, and because having a current vdi (or better, vmdk, supported by both VMware and VirtualBox) available would mean that OpenSolaris would get more use (and thus testing) in such virtualized environments. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
