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http://blogs.sun.com/AaronDailey/date/20080229 Friday February 29, 2008

Virtual Box and Opensolaris Developer Preview

I just got Opensolaris Developer Preview working as a guest operating system under Windows using virtualbox.

 It's fairly painless, two things I had to do:

- Change the emulated NIC to Intel e1000g. It appear that the default emulated NIC, an AMD part, is not supported by the developer preview.

-Set up DNS. For some reason DNS doesn't work by default. It seems like this issue reported for Linux.

To solve it for Solaris, I modified /etc/resolv.conf, by inputting the DNS server  I found it from ifconfig /all in Windows. There may be a better way, but this works for now.

Performance is good - I haven't done any objective measurements, but it's very responsive.



 



Posted by AaronDailey [Solaris] ( February 29, 2008 09:49 AM ) Permalink