On 3/6/06, Andy Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
This is brilliant and I think we need to moveforwards with it. Thank you so very much Andy! The next question will be 64-bit or not or both 32-bit and 64-bit. Dennis
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