VMware Server and Solaris 10

something · 03-22-2008, 08:23 AM

Anyone ever installed Solaris 10 inside of VMware Server?

jlliagre · 03-22-2008, 06:03 PM

I haven't but I think it's supported. I prefer VirtualBox which can be now both a guest and a host OS.

dxqcanada · 03-22-2008, 06:21 PM

I have installed Sun Solaris 10 x86 as a guest in VMWare for Windows.

I have also installed Solaris 10 x86 as a guest on VirtualBox for Linux.

You will find that a number of people have done this.
Try a Google search.

LinuxLover · 03-23-2008, 01:12 PM

yes I using solaris 10 x86 in vmware version 6 as guest os under winxp as host os system.

I did try on vmware version 5.x it has some problem with sol 10. so its better to use vmware version 6.

Kahless · 04-02-2008, 11:19 PM

Yes. It was slow and painful, but it worked. google for exact install procedure on bigadmin.... there may have been a gotcha or two.

the biggest issues once it was installed were networking and an acceptable resolution. Be prepared to spend alot of time on google if you go for it

kebabbert · 04-04-2008, 01:07 PM

Have anyone tried to install Virtualbox ontop OpenSolaris, and then, install VirtualBox inside the VirtualBox, etc?

jlliagre · 04-05-2008, 10:04 AM

I more than strongly doubt this can work.

O/S level virtualization (zones) will work in the guest OS.

Recursive virtual machines can only work with simulation techniques like bochs, but with such a performance degradation that it would be useless.

sshd.root · 04-07-2008, 03:48 PM

Only x86 can be emulated on i386 platform. I running Solaris 10 x86 on Debian etch as guest OS. VMware Server version 1.0.4