[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on VMware Fusion...

Kyle McDonald KMcDonald at Egenera.COM
Mon Mar 3 11:30:00 PST 2008


Bryan Boone wrote:
> And finally it dies :(
> There are at least 3 things in the mix here.
>
> 1) VMWare vs VirtualBox
> 2) 64 bit host 32 bit vm
> 3) Indiana kernel in 32 bit mode vs 64 bit mode.
>
Might be something there.

I'm not positive, but I think I remember reading that the LiveCD is 
32bit only. There may not be a 64bit kernel on the Indiana CD - at least 
not to run from. If you install I beleive it gets installed.

 -Kyle

> Other ideas?
>
> -Bryan
>
>
>
>
> Darren Davis wrote:
>> That is definitely different from what I was seeing.  My screen would 
>> just be blank for a very long time, then I would get the Solaris boot 
>> sequence.
>>
>> From a Linux perspective, this is what I am running;
>>
>> Linux sles10-vmware1 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 21 13:29:51 
>> UTC 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> With VMware Server 1.0.4 Build 56528
>>
>> (Again, even though this is a 64bit machine, I can't support 64bit 
>> quests)
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Darren
>>
>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM, in message 
>>>>> <47CC4709.1000301 at sas.com>, Bryan
>> Boone <Bryan.Boone at sas.com> wrote:
>>> This is what I got before.... This is 64 Linux
>>>
>>> Linux askani 2.6.24- 2.6.24.2.slh.12- sidux- amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT 
>>> Sun Feb
>>> 24 01:44:26 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> VMWare Player 2.0.2 build- 59824
>>>
>>> (64 bit installation)
>>>
>>> The snapshot is OpenSolaris trying to boot.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan Boone wrote:
>>>> Getting ready to try 64 bit all the way...
>>>> I'll let you know how it works.
>>>> Thanks for the file.... I have been creating them off EasyVMX.
>>>> - Bryan
>>>>
>>>> Darren Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM, in message 
>>>>>>>> <47CBDD62.AE61.007E.0 at novell.com>,
>>>>> "Darren Davis" <ddavis at novell.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM, in message 
>>>>>>>>> <47CC3DAB.5000903 at sas.com>, Bryan
>>>>>> Boone <Bryan.Boone at sas.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I'll let it sit a while longer...
>>>>>>> I just got 2 failure notices so I canned it.
>>>>>>> Started googling after that...
>>>>>>> Care to share your vmx?
>>>>>>> -   Bryan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attached...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Darren
>>>>> BTW, Indiana Preview 2 works fine on my SLES 10 SP1 machine with 
>>>>> VMware
>>> Server 1.0.4 but it is only 32 bit.  I do have an Intel 64bit 
>>> processor, but
>>> it was an early version that didn't have the virtualization 
>>> support.  If I
>>> can find a machine, I will try and give 64bit a try with Linux.
>>>>> Later,
>>>>>
>>>>> Darren
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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