Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 as a guest OS using VMware Workstation 6
on an Ubuntu host. This is an update to my earlier post addressing
installation of the Developer Preview releases.
See the updated instructions.
Connecting the dots with Solaris and middleware In the middle
Wednesday Apr 30, 2008
Sunday Dec 23, 2007
These instructions have been updated based on using the latest release, OpenSolaris 2008.05
Once a pre-installed VMware image of OpenSolaris is made available for general download, some of the following instructions will become obsolete. Ideally, all you should need to do is download a VMware image and boot it within VMware Workstation, VMware Player or one of the VMware server products.
In the meantime the following instructions address booting up the OpenSolaris 2008.05 live CD and installing the OS into a virtual machine (VM). In this example we'll use VMware Workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 running on Ubuntu 7.10 with bridged networking.
A colleague of mine has also followed these instructions using VMware Workstation 6 on Windows XP.
