[desktop-discuss] Running Windoze in a VM?

[Bob Doolittle]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm in the unfortunate postion of having to run some Windoze apps
>> (stupid vendor thinks that Windoze is a good development platform...),
>> but natuarally enough, I find Solaris to be a much more productive
>> environment.  Looks like the best way forward would be to run
>> Windoze in some sort of VM, a la VMware.  Assuming its possible,
>> what's the best way of running Windoze as a client OS in a virtual
>> machine, with Nevada build 70 (or newer) as the host OS?
>>     
>
> The best way ?
>
> Can't be done with Solaris.  Period.
>   

Not true.  You're focused only on VMware, I think
he only gave that merely as a possible solution example.

Can be done with win4solaris.
http://www.win4solaris.com

Also qemu, if you don't mind rolling up your sleeves a bit.
Lots of info on both of these on blogs.sun.com.

Personally, I have a two-box solution.  My main
desktop is Solaris, but I run VMware ESX 3.0.2 on a
specially-config'd Ultra 40, with VMs of several
Linux distros and Windows and several Solaris
releases (I need to test with all of these).  I
use an RDP client to connect to Windows from a
window on my Solaris desktop (I use the Sun Ray
Windows Connector product for this, but there's
also the freeware rdesktop client).

-Bob

> You need VMware Workstation 6.0.0 build 45731 as a minimum and then you can
> run whatever you need from a Windows perspective in virtual machines that
> are supported. You need a decent ( what is that? ) Windows workstation to
> run VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 or you need RedHat Enterprise Linux or
> something similar. I guess KnoppiX could do it but I never tried.
>
> As for Windows in a virtual machine on top of Solaris. I don't see it as
> possible in a stable fashion.  Yet.  I did lots of tests going back years
> now and never did get anything stable.  Sorry man but those are the facts.
>
> Dennis
>
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