[desktop-discuss] products i wish were available on Solaris x86

[Moinak Ghosh]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> [...]
>     - VMWare.  It would be really, really cool if I could run VMWare
> player on Solaris, or even better, the VMWare Server product.   Then I
> could create virtual instances of Solaris, and also host NetBSD (or,
> gasp, even Linux!) inside VMWare.  As I do kernel development of NetBSD,
> this would be really, really useful to me.
>   

   You may want to try out Bochs an IA-32 PC emulator. I have successfully
   tried it out in the past on SPARC Solaris.
   http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

   Among the features is an internal debugger which might prove useful 
to you.

> There are probably other things that people want, but the VMWare product
> would immediately make most things available, and requires less overhead
> than other solutions.   (I know, I could probably set up a Solaris Zone,
> run Linux in it, and host the VMWare player in it.  Has anyone tried
> that?  I still haven't tried Solaris Zones, but I'm also running Solaris
> 10 3/05.  I suppose I should upgrade...)
>
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