On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007, Ben Taylor wrote: > ---- Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007, Julian Seward wrote: > > > (replying off list) > > > > > > So you have Solaris 10 (x86 ?) running on qemu-0.9 ? Is it stable? > > > Does it work? I have it running on vmware-5.5.3 but would prefer to > > > move to running it on qemu if possible; however I've had mixed > > > results with qemu in the past and don't want to spend loads of time > > > on failed attempts to get it to work. Hence the question. > > > > It was a great battle to install but now it is stable. Do the following > > things: > > 1. install from the DVD image > > 2. Use the text console install > > 3. At the end of the install, backup the image file *before* the first > > reboot > > This is a good recommendation for any install. I know I must have > 4-5 copies of my working Win98SE and WinXPHome images. > > > 4. If during the first boot of the image, you get a segfault, restore > > and try again until you get to a prompt. Ignore any service failures. > > (the filesystem seems prone corruption at the first boot.) > > How much memory are you giving the virtual machine. Solaris 10 really > needs 384MB and more like 512 for S10U3 to run reasonably.
I have 2GB of RAM so I always give a VM 1G. -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel