On 3/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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. > > 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?
There are legal issues with redistributing Solaris Express (either as a VM or an ISO) due to the non-open-source (and non-redistributable) components - only Sun has the rights to distribute these. But the other OpenSolaris based distros (Schillix, Nexenta, and Belenix) are freely redistributable (AFAIK). If someone makes a (legal) OpenSolaris based distro available for download I'll get a link to it added to the VMware community page. Andy Tucker VMware, Inc. (speaking only for myself) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
