---- Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007, Julian Seward wrote: > > (replying off list) > > > > So you have Solaris 10 (x86 ?) running on qemu-0.9 ? Is it stable? > > Does it work? I have it running on vmware-5.5.3 but would prefer to > > move to running it on qemu if possible; however I've had mixed > > results with qemu in the past and don't want to spend loads of time > > on failed attempts to get it to work. Hence the question. > > It was a great battle to install but now it is stable. Do the following > things: > 1. install from the DVD image > 2. Use the text console install > 3. At the end of the install, backup the image file *before* the first reboot
This is a good recommendation for any install. I know I must have 4-5 copies of my working Win98SE and WinXPHome images. > 4. If during the first boot of the image, you get a segfault, restore and > try > again until you get to a prompt. Ignore any service failures. (the filesystem > seems prone corruption at the first boot.) How much memory are you giving the virtual machine. Solaris 10 really needs 384MB and more like 512 for S10U3 to run reasonably. > 5. If you have problems caused by damaged files, re-install choosing > the "Update" option: this will restore the damaged files. That really sounds like a problem with the checksum of the DVD iso or a bad DVD burn. I must have burned 4-5 copies of S10U3 this weekend and finally got a DVD-RW to work with no errors after writing it on one machine, pulling the DVD writer and putting on the machine to install. > After that, I was able to boot reliably into X. However, the filesystem seems > very fragile if not shut down cleanly, so take regular backups! That's very odd. Solaris's UFS is a very stable file system. I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes. Ben _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel