Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm in the unfortunate postion of having to run some Windoze apps >> (stupid vendor thinks that Windoze is a good development platform...), >> but natuarally enough, I find Solaris to be a much more productive >> environment. Looks like the best way forward would be to run >> Windoze in some sort of VM, a la VMware. Assuming its possible, >> what's the best way of running Windoze as a client OS in a virtual >> machine, with Nevada build 70 (or newer) as the host OS? >> > > The best way ? > > Can't be done with Solaris. Period. >
Not true. You're focused only on VMware, I think he only gave that merely as a possible solution example. Can be done with win4solaris. http://www.win4solaris.com Also qemu, if you don't mind rolling up your sleeves a bit. Lots of info on both of these on blogs.sun.com. Personally, I have a two-box solution. My main desktop is Solaris, but I run VMware ESX 3.0.2 on a specially-config'd Ultra 40, with VMs of several Linux distros and Windows and several Solaris releases (I need to test with all of these). I use an RDP client to connect to Windows from a window on my Solaris desktop (I use the Sun Ray Windows Connector product for this, but there's also the freeware rdesktop client). -Bob > You need VMware Workstation 6.0.0 build 45731 as a minimum and then you can > run whatever you need from a Windows perspective in virtual machines that > are supported. You need a decent ( what is that? ) Windows workstation to > run VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 or you need RedHat Enterprise Linux or > something similar. I guess KnoppiX could do it but I never tried. > > As for Windows in a virtual machine on top of Solaris. I don't see it as > possible in a stable fashion. Yet. I did lots of tests going back years > now and never did get anything stable. Sorry man but those are the facts. > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
