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Installing SXDE on VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta

Thursday Oct 25, 2007

I recently installed Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) on my Mac using VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta. It's not as straight forward as it could be so here are the details. Based on the SXDE instructions, I had to modify the default configuration for Solaris 10 to create a VM with 768MB of memory and 20GB of disk. I also had to add the line below to the ".vmx" file to get Solaris to run in 32-bit mode. See this link for details.

monitor_control.disable_longmode = 1

Installing the VMware tools enables features such as integrated mouse movement and cut and paste and its installation is documented in the VMware manual. Hopefully, the final release of Fusion will have these problems fixed. I've also installed SXDE on the latest version of Parallels 3.0 and am in the process of comparing the two of them.

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Posted at 07:34AM Oct 25, 2007 by edwingo in General
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Have you had any success installing SXCE on Virtual PC 2007?

Posted by Abraham Tehrani on October 25, 2007 at 10:36 AM PDT #

No, I haven't tried Virtual PC.

Posted by Edwin Goei on October 25, 2007 at 01:58 PM PDT #

Can you see your usb drive inside the new SXDE? I installed it fine, but cannot see the usb drive. Any idea? Thanks. Lin

Posted by 69.140.38.76 on December 08, 2007 at 05:20 AM PST #

Sorry, I haven't tried this so don't know the answer. Have you checked the VMware Fusion forum?

Posted by Edwin Goei on December 09, 2007 at 08:15 AM PST #

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