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Update due to multiple emails (just leave comments next time) :

It's not Xen, it's not VMWare, it's not Citrix, it's not Terminal Server.  And yes, that is Solaris the VM is running on.

 

Posted on: Jan 12, 2007

Posted by: ThinGuy

Category: Sun Ray

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Nice demo.

Posted by Tom Haynes on January 12, 2007 at 06:25 PM PST #

Can you give us some details?

Posted by John Clingan on January 12, 2007 at 08:23 PM PST #

it states "Win4Solaris".. "Win4Lin" is (by now) a kqemu+qemu based windows-on-linux solution, and I'd guess that this is the solaris version of it. (remember that kqemu, the kernel module that makes it fast, is available for solaris now)

Posted by Patrick Mauritz on January 13, 2007 at 01:03 AM PST #

Is that from the Tarantella acquisition?

Posted by Bharath R on January 13, 2007 at 01:48 AM PST #

Looks very good. Question about your nice looking desktop, is that what Solaris Express looks like these days or a heavily themed variant? What application did you use to capture the animation?

Posted by Sean Clarke on January 13, 2007 at 02:23 AM PST #

Bingo Patrick, except it's more than that too as win4lin is more than just qemu/kqemu. More details to follow.

Bharath, Nope but it does work very nicely with SGD.

Sean, That is indeed base Solaris Express with just a changed wall paper (the wall paper is included too). Huge kudos to Solaris/Open Solaris Team.

The animation is captured by vnc2swf. I'll be blogging my experience getting that going as well. Hopefully we can get the fine folks @ blastwave and sunfreeware to make it easier.

Posted by ThinGuy on January 13, 2007 at 08:36 AM PST #

Lovely job -- I was trying (and failing! :-) to do something similar just yesterday, so thx also for the pointer...

Posted by Tony Heskett on January 13, 2007 at 09:03 AM PST #

I concurr, nice demo. Is it running on a SunRay or the U40 console display ?

Posted by Avelino on January 13, 2007 at 09:19 AM PST #

Hi Avelino,
Technically neither since it's actually done via recording a VNC Session. But VNC was attched to console as I'm having trouble getting vnc2swf to attach to a remote display. Working on that, but performance of the Win4Solaris is very very good from a Sun Ray.

Replying from IE 7 on my Win4Solaris VM via a Sun Ray 2.

Posted by ThinGuy on January 13, 2007 at 10:40 AM PST #

Neat!

Would Dante's Motto apply here too: "Ye who enter here leave all hope (of Microsoft Support) behind."

Or is Sun trying to work some support-agreement/license magic with Microsoft like they did for uttsc?

Speaking of uttsc, would the above win4solaris solution have similar access to the "Solaris Home Directory" from the windows-space? (thats a great feature of uttsc)

Posted by 76.19.87.175 on January 13, 2007 at 10:55 AM PST #

Yes, you have full access to your solaris home directory.

Might be hard to see, but there is an icon the desktop that points to \\host\home and that is your home directory on Solaris.

What's even better is that you can symlink your mass storage directory from Sun Ray to your solaris home directory and get access to your USB mass storage devices as well.

Posted by ThinGuy on January 13, 2007 at 11:06 AM PST #

This is a nice concerpt just as there has been many others. Does any one remeber Be OS that had the capability of hosting six movie windows on an Intel 386 PC, way back in 1995 (after booting in 15 seconds)? Until we the masses see it on the hardware we can go and buy at the nearest store, not the nearest Sun; have a nice adventure!

Posted by Leonard Masano on January 16, 2007 at 03:32 AM PST #

That's awesome Leonard. I finally have a name to put to the the "masses". I always felt masses was far too formal. Have fun at CompUSA.

Posted by ThinGuy on January 16, 2007 at 05:24 AM PST #

It's the same as Win4BSD, right? My experiences with Win4BSD here.

Posted by Ceri Davies on January 16, 2007 at 06:30 AM PST #

my only complaint about win4sol is that it requires a rather decent amount of RAM to run properly... 1GB overall on my TP40 and allocating 512MB to the winpro allows for ok performance.. in either case it sure beats having to switch back and forth.. now I can run NV full time on my TP and not care about windows apps at all..

Posted by sysot1t on January 17, 2007 at 11:07 PM PST #

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