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Thursday August 14, 2008

Burning a data DVD from Virtual Box

I wanted to upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 running in VirtualBox to the latest OpenSolaris development build. After downloading the iso image , I wanted to burn it on a DVD. Since I am running the 2008.05 release, many of the applications, such as cdrw , have to be downloaded from the repository. I used the Package Manager (the GUI for the Image Packaging System) to download the SUNWcdrw package. The Package Manager can be started via System->Administration->Package Manager. Or, at the command line, type:

$ packagemanager &

However I got this error when using cdrw.

And this was because I had not set the correct setting for the CD/DVD before starting Virtual Box.
To get VirtualBox to recognize your CD/DVD, do the following:
Before starting VirtualBox, goto Settings->CD/DVD-ROM->MountCD/DVD Drive(Enable Passthrough is checked)->Click OK.

Now when I start VirtualBox, it has no problem detecting the CD-DVD drive.

Posted at 02:47PM Aug 14, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[0]

Thursday June 19, 2008

A BOSUG meet

I attended a BOSUG (Bangalore OpenSolaris Users Group) meet while in Bangalore. Deirdre Straughan gave an informal talk about video blogging and there is a blog already posted about this by another BOSUG attendee. Suffice to say that video blogging sounds really cool and worth investing some of our time and resources on it.

Posted at 02:27AM Jun 19, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[0]

Developer tools packages on OpenSolaris repository

There are various developer packages available for download on the OpenSolaris repository - http://pkg.opensolaris.org.
Among them are Sun Studio, Webstack and NetBeans packages.

1. sunstudioexpress - This package comprises of Sun Studio Express 5/08 that is available only to OpenSolaris 2008.05 users. This is the most current release of Sun Studio, i.e. it is newer than the Sun Studio 12 release, but has limited support. See the README for information specific to this release.
2. sunstudio - This package consists of Sun Studio 12 software.
3. ss-dev - This package has a number of sub-packages within it, the sunstudioexpress package being one of them.Other sub-packages include the development tools for JDK 6.0, automake, libtool etc. For a complete list, see this table.
There have been various discussions regarding downloading and installing Sun Studio on Nevada build 90. See this thread for details.
4.amp-dev - This package consists of all the web stack packages, Apache, MySql, Perl/PHP/Python. See this table for a list of the individual components and their versions.
5. netbeans - Superset of all the NetBeans packages. The individual components are listed here.

Note that the "super-set" package clusters (ss-dev,amp-dev and netbeans) can take some time to download depending on your bandwidth, all the individual components can also be downloaded separately.

Posted at 02:06AM Jun 19, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[0]

Sunday June 08, 2008

Nominate OpenSolaris on SourceForge.net

The 2008 Community Choice awards at SourceForge are up for grabs. We hope you have used OpenSolaris and appreciated the efforts of the OpenSolaris project (and the team).
Some of the more interesting (??) nomination choices we hope the community stays away from are : Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation (NO!), Most Likely to Get Users Sued (NO, NO) . Of course, if you think this is the Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquistion project, we can't complain . But seriously, please take a moment to nominate OpenSolaris. Login to SourceForge and click on the image below to go directly to the nomination page.