On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Andras Barna <andras.barna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. use pkgadd That did it. took a little playing around to get it working. The man page did help with options. > > 2. try pfexec svcadm restart nwam That took care of the network problem. Once I installed the guest additions and then restarted nwamd the interface got it's IP just fine. Thanks for the quick response, I'm sure I'll have a few more questions later. You wouldn't know anything about Solaris10 on VBox as well do you? > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have just installed OpenSolaris10.200805 as a guest OS on > > VirtualBox-1.6.0. The host OS is Fedora 9. I am having two initial > problems: > > > > 1. How do I install the Guest Additions package for Solaris? I can mount > the > > CD image and see the contents. I have tried going through IPS using the > pkg > > install command, but it seems that it'll only work with packages from the > > main repository, I could not figure out how to get it to source from CD > > instead. It also was unable to access the repository since I could not > get > > the network working (See # 2). > > > > 2. How do I get network working? I know from using M$ Win2K Pro as a > guest > > that VirtualBox uses NAT to communicate thru the host os to the outside > > world. I presume that it's the same for OpenSolaris. > > > > TIA > > Scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-help mailing list > > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > > > > > > -- > Andy > http://blog.sartek.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080529/fcc9783a/attachment.html>
