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
Thanks for the post.
I am running Indiana Preview 2 in SXDE4 under VirtualBox. How did you "[c]hange the emulated NIC to Intel e1000g"?
Thanks again.
Posted by W. Wayne Liauh on February 29, 2008 at 02:07 PM CST #
If your virtual machine is stopped, go to settings, then network, then set adapter 0 to Intel Pro 1000/MT.
Posted by aaron on March 02, 2008 at 05:37 PM CST #