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Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
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Solaris installation using VMware
I bought a new computer and installed Windows 2003 server. It works fine. Then I installed Solaris using VMware.
As you know VMware for servrs is free.
It took about 4 hours to install.
It goes very very very slow. I don't know how to run Solaris.
I wonder if someone has installed Solaris on x_86 machine.
May be I have to throw away VMware and install it using GRUB.
I have 1GB of RAM on my new 64 bit computer.
I would like to hear from the people who installed Solaris using VMware .
Distribution: BeOS, BSD, Caldera, CTOS, Debian, LFS, Mac, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, Solaris, SuSE
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About two or three years ago I installed Solaris 9 on a x86 box using Virtual PC and yes it took a long time to install, I suspect using VMWare would taken as long.
I've installed Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris natively on a x64 box with 512Mb of RAM. The install went smoothy, but running the Java desktop was a bit sluggish. I upgraded the RAM to 1Gb and Java desktop response perked right up. CDE seemed a little sluggish also with only 512Mb of RAM.
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