Vista & Solaris dual-boot

Dox Systems - Brian · 03-28-2008, 08:46 AM

If anyone does figure out how to get SXDE to co-exist with Vista (boot-time selection), I'd like to know. I currently have each one installed on it's own HD and have to swap cables to select the other OS...

jlliagre · 03-28-2008, 01:42 PM

It seems a fix allows Solaris Express to dual-boot with Vista starting from build 70.
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6510526

As usual, experiment on spare disks for such sensitive operations and backup your data before trying it on your real O/S.

kebabbert · 03-30-2008, 05:06 AM

Have you tried to run Vista under VirtualBox? Maybe it works good enough? Then you dont have to install Vista on a separate partition?

Dox Systems - Brian · 03-31-2008, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by kebabbert

Have you tried to run Vista under VirtualBox? Maybe it works good enough? Then you dont have to install Vista on a separate partition?

What's VirtualBox?

1jnike · 03-31-2008, 08:48 AM

Hi Dox Systems - Brian

See link below:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I hope this is of help.

Jnike

Dox Systems - Brian · 04-01-2008, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by 1jnike

Hi Dox Systems - Brian

See link below:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I hope this is of help.

Jnike

It was of great help! I was aware of Xvm (and wanted to try it), but couldn't figure out where to start (other than installing OpenSolaris). It got too painful to try and figure out, so I just dropped it...

Virtualbox's website is what Xvm SHOULD have for their downloads (I really like Sun equipment and Solaris, but they've got an absolute disaster (as far as being able to quickly and easily find information and downloads) for a website). Very easy to understand the virtualbox website. Had it setup in no time here at work.

So far my success has been somewhat limited though. I put it on an XP box for initial testing. Ubuntu 7.10, under virtualbox, runs fine off of CD, but won't install properly (goes through the motions, but then dies). Working on trying SuSE 10.3, but it's insanely slow compared to running on the bare metal, may take all day to install...

Hopefully in a couple days I'll have chance to get the download done at home too (17MB over dialup isn't much fun, then I'll have to setup a file share so I can move it to my Vista box which has no Internet access at all (no modem, only a NIC

)). Anyone have any success yet at guesting the latest OpenSolaris under Vista?

coolster · 04-01-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Dox Systems - Brian

Anyone have any success yet at guesting the latest OpenSolaris under Vista?

I did it the other way around: Solaris Nevada Build 82 as a host OS, is guesting WindowsXP. Works very nice and very fast!
The only problem is I have this running on a laptop, and VirtualBox is not sensitive for noticing PCMCIA stuff. So I have to compile some sfe third party driver for the builtin SiS900 device to map this to the virtual NIC.

Dox Systems - Brian · 04-02-2008, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by coolster

I did it the other way around: Solaris Nevada Build 82 as a host OS, is guesting WindowsXP. Works very nice and very fast!
The only problem is I have this running on a laptop, and VirtualBox is not sensitive for noticing PCMCIA stuff. So I have to compile some sfe third party driver for the builtin SiS900 device to map this to the virtual NIC.

Doing it your way was my original plan, but I got hung up with Xvm and needed to get Vista up and running (for Visual Studio) sooner rather than later...