On Jan 17, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Michael Bender wrote:
Has anyone here successfully run SRSS on a VMware guest running
Solaris x86? Any gotchas to watch out for?
None (yet).
Works like a charm here.
Host 2 Sunfire 4150 (2 quadcore 3GHz,46 to 64 Gb RAM) ESX4.0
Guest : Solaris 10u8 & SRSS 4.2 (& a Windows 2003R2 TS on another VM)
Oh and here I'm using a MacPro quad-core with 16GB RAM and Fusion,
an Ultra-40 running ESX (with the special SATA disk controller and
cable so ESX is happy) and an x4600 M2 with vSphere 4 (ESX 4) - the
latter system is still being configured with more disk and RAM. Other
folks in the group run SRSS for development on x4600 boxes and other
x86 systems.
I also run Fusion on my MacBook Pro but only have 2GB of RAM and a
160GB disk, so once I upgrade RAM to 4GB and install my 320GB disk
I'll have a nice portable Sun Ray development environment that can
host several SRSS VMs (Solaris and Linux) and a Windows VM, and with
the soft client, I don't even need to carry a DTU with me when I go
to the local cafe ad bang out some code and test it on SRSS ;-) That
is just so cool to even think about. Maybe I can pay for my latte
by offering Sun Ray sessions on my laptop to the people in the
cafe ;-)
Wow, it must be nice to have a salary. ;) My Sun Rays here (all
1's) are running from a Sun Fire V480, which does a zillion other
things around here. I'll move it to a V490 or V890 when the prices
come down a bit more, but for now it's actually really hard to slow
that machine down.
But for this customer, he's got some very lightweight custom-
written accounting and point-of-sale software running under SCO
OpenServer5, which is why I ended up with x86 for this stuff in the
first place. I'm planning to replace his point-of-sale terminals
(currently full-blown Windows XP desktop machines that never do
anything other than run a telnet client) with Sun Rays. I'll have a
Solaris x86 VMs to support the Sun Rays and a SCO VM for his point-of-
sale app.
I think this will work out nicely, if I can figure out how to
handle printing.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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