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Wednesday Jan 23, 2008

SXDE.next

I've been running Solaris 10 in a VMware virtual machine for several months. This has worked pretty well, and somewhere along the line VMware decided to support the VMware Tools with Solaris 10.

A few months back, Solaris management asked us engineers to test an early, internal version of the next Solaris Express Developer's Edition (SXDE), snv_79. I attempted to install this in a new virtual machine. The installer didn't work in that it failed to partition the disk. On a Sun internal mailing list I heard this has something to do with the disk driver, but that you could install from text installer. Okay, I did that and it worked fine. One other problem is that the VMware Tools don't seem to install correctly, but that's not such a big deal. One final issue I had was getting the hostname set correctly. I set the system up to use DHCP, and I tried various ideas I found in Sun's documentation and on the web, and finally remembered the trick is to put the hostname in /etc/nodename. This was very frustrating. I'll need to write this down, as I must have done this on the Solaris 10 machine earlier.

Last week we were asked to test the respin of the next SXDE, snv_79a. I created another virtual machine and this one installed as advertised. VMware Tools don't install right here either. The installer also set up /etc/nodename, so I didn't have to remember to do that. Very nice! It appears from the internal survey we were asked to fill out that snv_79b is in the works so we have a little more time to go before the next SXDE is released.

For the issue of VMware Tools, VMware open sourced some or all of the tools (I'm not sure) a few months back, so I suppose I could figure this out at some point if I ever care about it. Or just wait and keep trying occasionally until the tools install correctly.

Posted at 03:32PM Jan 23, 2008 by Dave Marquardt in Solaris  | 

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