Monday Sep 22, 2008
One of the things missing when you install OpenSolaris in a
VMware virtual machine is audio. Apparently the driver for the
audio device that VMware emulates isn't redistributable, so it
isn't included as part of OpenSolaris.
To solve this, I grabbed a copy of the Open Sound System
drivers package
and followed the installation
instructions. After a reboot, I had sound.
Wednesday Jan 23, 2008
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.
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