Another alternative is purchasing solaris hardware, since VirtualBox only runs 
x86. Ebay does have some for auction at a reasonable price.

http://tinyurl.com/sunblade-on-ebay <http://tinyurl.com/sunblade-on-ebay>

I do not know if it includes disks, but they aren’t all that expensive.

I would volunteer to do this myself, but my spouse is already hostile to having 
equipment around that is “not used”. Sorry.

Dale Smith
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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:40 AM, JJ Allaire <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I am happy to share my experience with Solaris. I have been meaning to
>> write a step-by-step guide to setting up a Solaris testing platform for
>> R on a VirtualBox VM, so this gives me some impetus to write it.
> 
> That would be excellent! I got as far as getting R running on a
> VirtualBox but got hung up on compiler configuration such that was
> unable to build packages that included native code.
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