Minimal OpenSolaris 2009.06 Appliance Image for VirtualBox 2.2.4
With the release of the OpenSolaris 2009.06, I thought it is time to update the Minimal OpenSolaris 2008.11 Appliance OVF image that I had created earlier. The script create_osol2009006_app.sh has been updated to create minimal OpenSolaris 2009.06 Appliance images for VirtualBox.
How to use the OVF image?
- Download VirtualBox 2.2.4 and install it on your host platform.
- Download the OpenSolaris 2009.06 App OVF image zip file and then unzip it.
- Fire up Virtualbox GUI and use menu item VirtualBox->File->Import Appliance to import the image (using the OSOL200906App.ovf file ) into a new VirtualBox VM
- Start the newly created VM and in few minutes you will be ready to login into OpenSolaris 2009.06 kernel.The preset login information is user: root with password: opensolaris.
Comments welcome.
Jignesh Your image could be used as an alternative to CentOS Kernel only install !
Posted by Ramesh Nagappan on June 03, 2009 at 03:08 PM EDT #
Nice work, thank you! Works out of the (Virtual)Box :)
Posted by phi.mic on June 04, 2009 at 10:25 AM EDT #
Thank you for providing this appliance. I think this is one of the easiest ways for testing opensolaris.
Posted by Brocki on June 20, 2009 at 06:54 AM EDT #
This is great, thanks!
It would be even better if it were available as a project one could pull from Kenai or Github or the like.
Posted by Matt Ingenthron on August 27, 2009 at 03:42 PM EDT #