On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there not an OpenSolaris vmware image / pre-built Virtual Machine for > Intel architectures available for download yet? All the big Linux > distributions have one available at > http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/ and there are plenty of community > built ones at http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html and > the beauty of it is that the vmware player is completely free and it is > dead easy to boot into any prebuilt OS. > > There are instructions here on how to build one here > http://brushmore.blogspot.com/2006/01/installing-opensolaris-on-vmware-d > raft.html, but would require installing VMWare Server then installing > OpenSolaris. I'd love to have an easy way to mess around with Solaris > and an easily accessible prebuilt vmware image would be absolutely > ideal. > > In this email thread > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=17440䐠, > there was a hint at legal issues for distributing it. Is this possibly > the reason why there is no OpenSolaris virtual appliance to be found > anywhere on the internet, or is it just that no-one has got around to it > yet? > > William >
Just to add to what William said, I still am willing to to work on the VMware image of OpenSolaris/Solris Express. I have an image ready to go. Bill rushmores.net _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
