Úterý červenec 03, 2007

Running Solaris 10 in Windows Vista

I have a new computer running Windows Vista Home Premium at my home office. I used to connect to work remotely via Sun's Open Work tools but that appears to be forbidden on Windows Vista for now. I thought about one of the alternative ways of running Solaris on my new computer: install Solaris in a virtual machine.

I used VMWare Workstation 6 evaluation download to test it. The latest version is compatible with Vista and works fine. I createad a virtual machine and installed Solaris 10 manually. All went fine, but I ended up quite disappointed, because I couldn't connect to my home network. Maybe it's the Marvell Gigabit Ethernet NIC integrated on my ASUS MR32-MVP motherboard that is not compatible with Solaris drivers. Or maybe it's just my network settings.

But I can confirm the VMWare Workstation works well with my network card, because after installing their sample virtual machine with preconfigured Ubuntu Linux and a preinstalled Firefox browser, everything works as expected.

After my evaluation licence expires, I will try another alternative: install Solaris on a separate partition. But I am afraid of what will partitioning do with my Vista installation, esp. on my 500GB RAID 1+0 array.

— VII 03 2007, 05:13:15 odp. CEST Permalink Comments [1]