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"Solaris on Parallels" available on Sun Download Center now!

This is to announce the SXDE(Solaris Express, Developer Edition) Parallels appliance on Sun Download Center. More Solaris Parallels appliance will be released in the future.

For those who are not familiar with Parallels, this appliance is a ready-to-resume virtual machine, with which you can run Solaris on Parallels on MacOS, Windows and Linux(not tested yet).

Download address: SXDE Parallels Appliance on Sun Download Center

(which resides under the "Operating System" - "Solaris Operating System" subcategory on Sun Download Center)

Please find more info in the following README:

Introduction

This README document provides the details for the installation and configuration of the "Solaris Express, Developer Edition Appliance for the Parallels Virtual Machine 1.0", which consists of a pre-installed and pre-configured Solaris Express Developer Edition, a network driver and inetmenu 2.3.4.

This release has been tested on Parallels Desktop build 3188 (Mac) and Parallels Workstation Version 2.2 Build 2112 (Windows).

What are included:

A pre-installed Solaris Express, Developer Edition consists of the following components:

  • Early release version of Solaris (almost the same as Solaris Express, Community Edition build 55)

  • Sun Studio 11: compilers, tools, and IDE for C, C++, and Fortran.

  • NetBeans IDE 5.5: open source IDE for Java software developers.

  • NetBeans IDE Enterprise Pack 5.5: for developing service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications using XML, BPEL, and Java web services.

  • Java Platform Standard Edition 6: for developing and deploying Java applications.

  • StarOffice 8: OpenOffice-based productivity suite provides word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing capabilities.

    For more information about these components, including user and administration guides, please search the docs.sun.com repository.

and:

  • An open source network driver ni, which is the same as the one contained in Parallels tools CD image.

  • An Open Solaris tool inetmenu 2.3.4, which allows you configure network settings without reboot and across reboot. For more info, please read the user guide of inetemenu.

Installation and Usage Instructions

  • Download, join and extract files

      • Windows:

        • download win-sxde.part*.rar

        • extract files in sxde.part*.rar to a known directory (e.g. C:\VirtualMachines\sxde), Winrar 2.62 is recommended

      • MacOS:

        • download mac-sxde.tgz.*

        • join.sh will do the join and extract work and put all files into $HOME/Library/Parallels/sxde

      • Note:

        • sxde.hdd and zfs.hdd can be shared between Windows and MacOS install, but for simplicity, we make packages for Windows and MacOS separately.

  • Resume the virtual machine

      • Open “sxde.pvs” using Parallels (or simply type "open sxde.pvs" on MacOS)

      • The virtual machine should be resumed in about 5-10 seconds.

      • Please remember to change the password, the default password for root is "root".

  • Use inetmenu GUI (Gimenu) to setup your network

      • select appropriate profile, e.g. DHCP-NoNIS

      • (for user guide of inetmenu, please refer to inetmenu-user-guide.html.)

  • Register Solaris and enjoy!

Default configuration

This pre-installed “resumable” SXDE is configured as follows:

  • 1024M RAM, bridged network

  • root password is “root”

  • initial screen resolution is 1280x800, with multiple resolutions available: 1440x1024, 1280x800, 1024x768, 800x600, users need to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get preferred mode.

  • live upgrade capable (sxde.hdd is partitioned with two 9GB disk slices, c0d0s0 and c0d0s7)

  • one pre-configured ZFS data disk (zfs.hdd) for storing user data

  • one SAMBA shared folder exported as “shared”, no password required

How to use Live Upgrade in this appliance

    Please refer to http://blogs.sun.com/vl/entry/live_upgrade_feature_usage_experience for using Live Upgrade, or follow the simplified steps below:

  • At first, create an alternative boot environment on c0d0s7:

      # lucreate -n be2 -c be1 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0d0s7:ufs

  • populate an already configured alternative boot environment on c0d0s7:

      # lumake -n be2

  • upgrade OS on alternative boot environment:

      # luupgrade -u -n be2 -s <OS image path>

Posted at 06:40PM Apr 19, 2007 by Daniel Zhu in Parallels  |