“This is a step-by-step guide (with screenshots) for configuring a virtual machine and installing on it Sun Solaris 10. At the end you’ll be able to run the virtual machine inside Workstation 5.5 or inside VMware Player 1.0, which is a free virtualization product.”
Solaris 9/10 are supported in 5.x, you do a straightforward install as you would with Linux or Windows.
It’s not as if it’s like installing Solaris 8 in VMWare4 where you had to compile your own X server and run as FreeBSD, and it would only work on Linux hosts.
I’ve already installed the express version of Solaris 10, but may appear that i have problem with Gnome because when i hit change background resolution , gnome doing nothing, let me check the guide..
Maybe i’m doing something wrong here.
When you say you installed the express version of Solaris 10 I strongly suspect you mean you installed Solaris Express for the Nevada release. What does unname -a list ? If it says 5.11 then it is the Nevada project bits – ie the follow on from Solaris 10. If says 5.10 and anything with s10_?? in it then you don’t have the final release builds and should upgrade.
If you do have bits that say 5.11 what is the number in the snv_?? bit ? There were a couple of builds with a bug that mean’t that the GNOME resolution change didn’t work. You can use /usr/X11/bin/xrandr or upgrade to a later Solaris Express build (take snv_27) as the bug has been fixed.
I installed the lastest one, the which is nevada release 23..
I downloaded a couple a weeks ago when was release..
Was the november release
Check which windowing system you are using. If you can’t switch resolutions you may want to switch to the other one.
Can not change the resolution, the only available is 640×480@60.
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I’ve already installed the express version of Solaris 10, but may appear that i have problem with Gnome because when i hit change background resolution , gnome doing nothing, let me check the guide..
Maybe i’m doing something wrong here.
I doubt that you’ve done anything wrong. I downloaded the most recent Solaris 10 (not OpenSolaris) and installed it in a virtual machine using VMware 5.5 RC 2. It works fine, but Gnome won’t change resolution/color depth for me either. The only way to do it is to run kdmconfig… the only way using Sun’s X server, anyway. According to the Solaris installer, if you want to use the Xorg server, you need to create a new xorg.conf file. I’ve not tried it, but I’m thinking it might be possible simply to use the one from my SUSE 9.3 virtual machine rather than having to build one from the ground up. I’ve not tried using the Xorg server on Solaris, but I presume you’ll only be able to change the resolution/color depth by editing the xorg.conf file manually.
FWIW, in a SUSE virtual machine, KDE/YAST lets me select any resolution and color depth that it supports. The xorg.conf file has MODELINEs for all of the usual resolutions plus there are MODELINEs for a number of non-standard resolutions which can come in handy. You can manually change resolution/color depth by first editing xorg.conf, then killing the existing X server using Ctrl-Alt-Bksp. A new X server instance using the new settings will then start up. The manual method allows you to select any resolution for which there is a MODELINE in xorg.conf. I’ve found that 900×700 gives a reasonably usable window (better than 800×600, anyway) that fits without scroll bars on the 1024×768 desktop afforded by my laptop. Of course, if I just wanted to go fullscreen, I could set the res to 1024×768.
Maybe a howto would be in order here.
I setup solaris 9 and solaris 10 in vmware before. It’s a matter of next-next-next-finish, nothing to it, it just works.
It would be nice if he mentioned how to make solaris 10 survive the ‘suspend’ feature from vmware workstation. None of the microsoft or linux virtual machines have a problem with this, only solaris.
cheers,
pol
I setup solaris 9 and solaris 10 in vmware before. It’s a matter of next-next-next-finish, nothing to it, it just works.
Me too. It’s not such a big deal. Unfortunately, the OpenSolaris install hangs, so that’s not an option… not yet, anyway.
It would be nice if he mentioned how to make solaris 10 survive the ‘suspend’ feature from vmware workstation. None of the microsoft or linux virtual machines have a problem with this, only solaris.
That’s because there are not, as yet, vmware tools for Solaris. Therefore, no suspend/resume scripts, no hgfs (host/guest file sharing), no cut & paste between host & guest, and no shared mouse (wherein the mouse cursor freely moves between host and guest without having to use the “defocus” key sequence). It’s not clear when or even if there will be a vmware tools package for Solaris.
I’ll add my desire for Solaris as a host operating system here…I hope someone at EMC/VMWare is reading
way too much work for that, i expect they’d port it to macosx before solaris!
and solaris has a kind of jails system anyway.
there’s always primepower….
well with janus on the horizon vmware might just work on solaris
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=279&slide=3…