Re: [osol-help] How to enable vt-x/AMD-v

[B]

Hello again Andreja,

It is a HP NC-6400 1.86 DUAL-CORE Pentium...Trying to install on Virtualbox...I 
think that I have learned more in the last 2 days about Unix, virtualization, 
etc, than my entire life...It is a fun ride but sometimes frustrating.

Please let me know if you need any more info..Thanks!
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

UPDATE: I recreated my repository entries and now it is working great! I just 
got done installing Flash plug in. Thanks so much!
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[Paul Gress]

On 01/ 7/10 12:54 AM, B wrote:

No, when I open the package manager, I now get this error:

Network problem.

Details:
0/1 catalogs successfully updated:
https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/: Framework error: code: 77 reason: error 
setting certificate verify locations:
   CAfile: /etc/curl/curlCA
   CApath: none

URL: 'https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/catalog/0/'.

The application then hangs with the orange bar on the right continually going 
back and forthDo I need to reinstall?

I am running dev_130. Could this be a bug? Any idea how to fix without 
reinstalling or going back to build 111? Thanks
   


Working here.  Before when I posted I had two packages installed from 
there.  Now when I opened it there was an upgrade to the Fonts package 
available.  Maybe it was down temporally.


See output below:

Preparing...
Gathering package information

Packages To Be Updated:
system/font/truetype/ttf-fonts-c...@1.1-0.111

Downloading...
Package 1 of 1: system/font/truetype/ttf-fonts-core

Installing...
Removal Phase
Install Phase
Update Phase
Reading Existing Index
Indexing Packages

Installation completed successfully

This was from the extra repository.

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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

Ok, finally got it to work but now when I go to install flash player from the 
package manager, I get this error:
Preparing...
Gathering package information

Error:
An unknown error occurred in the None stage.
Please let the developers know about this problem by
filing a bug together with the error details listed below at:
http://defect.opensolaris.org

Exception traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/gui/installupdate.py", line 436, 
in __proceed_with_stages_thread_ex
self.__proceed_with_stages_thread()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/gui/installupdate.py", line 611, 
in __proceed_with_stages_thread
stuff_todo = self.__plan_stage()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/gui/installupdate.py", line 903, 
in __plan_stage
self.list_of_packages, refresh_catalogs = False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 290, in 
plan_install
Exception])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 272, in 
plan_install
verbose=verbose)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 2330, in 
make_install_plan
ip.plan_install(pkg_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py", line 201, 
in plan_install
self.__new_excludes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkg_solver.py", line 190, 
in solve_install
self.__trim_nonmatching_variants(fmri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkg_solver.py", line 966, 
in __trim_nonmatching_variants
vd = self.__get_variant_dict(fmri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkg_solver.py", line 652, 
in __get_variant_dict
self.__catalog.get_entry_all_variants(fmri))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/catalog.py", line 2612, in 
get_entry_all_variants
for a in actions:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/catalog.py", line 1503, in 
__gen_lazy_actions
m = self.__manifest_cb(self, f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 1071, in 
manifest_cb
return self.get_manifest(f, all_variants=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 912, in 
get_manifest
m = self.__get_manifest(fmri, excludes=excludes, intent=intent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 897, in 
__get_manifest
intent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/transport/transport.py", 
line 592, in get_manifest
ccancel=ccancel)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/transport/transport.py", 
line 606, in _get_manifest
pub = self.__img.get_publisher(pub_prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 611, in 
get_publisher
raise api_errors.UnknownPublisher(max(prefix, alias, origin))
UnknownPublisher: Unknown publisher 'ExtrasRepository'.

pkg version: f4ce7d1913be

List of configured publishers:
P   O   opensolaris.org (http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/)
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[?????? ???????]

I too get the orange bar, but not the error. Strange. I do not think that this 
is problem with build 130, because extras repository worked for me on this 
build. 

It's 7 am here, and I really need to get some sleep. 

In the meantime take a look at this 
[url]http://blogs.sun.com/frontline/entry/using_opensolaris_extras_support_repositories[/url]
and this 
[url]http://www.thushanfernando.com/index.php/2009/10/16/setting-up-opensolaris-extras-repository-for-virtualbox-true-type-fonts-flash-javafx-sdk/[/url].

Try removing the repository and adding it again using terminal as described on 
these websites. Maybe it will help.
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

After the command you suggested I get this output:

pfexec pkg unset-publisher ExtrasRepository
Unable to locate key '/home/computer/Downloadss/OpenSolaris_extras.key.pem' for 
publisher 'ExtrasRepository' needed to access 
'https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/'.
Unable to locate certificate 
'/home/computer/Downloadss/OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem' for publisher 
'ExtrasRepository' needed to access 'https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/'.
Caching catalogs ...

Seems like it cannot find the certificate and key which are located in my 
downloads folder...What the heck is going on? I can't even get into package 
manager to fix because it locks up
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

No, when I open the package manager, I now get this error:

Network problem.

Details:
0/1 catalogs successfully updated:
https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/: Framework error: code: 77 reason: error 
setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/curl/curlCA
  CApath: none

URL: 'https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/catalog/0/'.

The application then hangs with the orange bar on the right continually going 
back and forthDo I need to reinstall?

I am running dev_130. Could this be a bug? Any idea how to fix without 
reinstalling or going back to build 111? Thanks
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Re: [osol-help] How to enable vt-x/AMD-v

[?????? ???????]

Are you trying to install Opensolaris on virtual machine?  Give us some more 
information. If you are, which one you are using? Which model of laptop you are 
using? Some have virtualization disabled in BIOS (for example, I had to apply a 
BIOS hack I found on Internet to enable it), and some do not support it at all.

Do you have Intel processor or AMD?  And what is your processor's model number?
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Re: [osol-help] How to connect to Internet via WLAN

[Martin Schmidt]

solved. see this link.

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=448365񭝭
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[?????? ???????]

Is the extras repository working for you???

And I would like to thank you for posting the list of your repositories! As a 
new user of Opensolaris I had problems finding their addresses!
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[?????? ???????]

I do not know. I thought only I had this problem, but for last two or three 
days (it worked like 5 days ago or so) it the extras repository isn't working 
for me too. Sometimes I get forbidden error, sometimes I can refresh it 
normally, but I can't install software from it when I try to do so from 
treminal. Try this in terminal and give us the output:
pfexec pkg refresh

This command should, as far as I know, download latest list of available 
packages from repositories you have installed. 

If you need to install packages from other repositories and you want to use the 
GUI package manager, here is what you should type in terminal:

pfexec pkg unset-publisher extras

extras is the friendly name you gave to the extras repository. If you can't 
remember what it is open the Package Manager. It will be displayed in the 
repository list. 

The abovementioned command will remove extras repository from list of 
repositories available to you. Package manager should now be able to correctly 
refresh other repositories. This is not the final solution, but it should help 
until the extras is fixed.
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Re: [osol-help] LiveCD won't boot past copyright header

[Bede Carroll]

Hrmm. That is a bit unfortunate then. At the time what attracted me was the 
many 3.5" HDD bays and it being the only server at the time in the HP lineup 
with that configuration. Unfortunately this one is pretty new and still has a 
three year care pack left on it so I'm pretty much stuck with it.

The motherboard has SATA headers, have you tried a SATA DVD drive? I've been 
using the iLO and USB with no luck so I might try that next.

Thanks

Bede
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[Paul Gress]

On 01/ 6/10 08:14 PM, B wrote:

  Starting to wonder even though it said it was correctly published but it is STILL searching through the repository without stopping...Seems odd.
  

As was stated previously, it's in the "extra" repository.  The second
entry from the output is extra.

bash-4.0$ pkg authority
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS   URI
opensolaris.org  (preferred)  origin   online  
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/
Extras    origin   online  
https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra/
KDE   origin   online  
http://solaris.bionicmutton.org:10001/
Multimedia    origin   online  
http://opensolaris.homeunix.com:10906/
Opensolaris-Contrib   origin   online  
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/
Opensolaris-Pending   origin   online  
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending/
Sunfreeware   origin   online  
http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000/
Blastwave origin   online  
http://blastwave.network.com:1/
bash-4.0$





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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

Starting to wonder even though it said it was correctly published but it is 
STILL searching through the repository without stopping...Seems odd.
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[osol-help] AttributeErrors on Pkg refresh on b128a

[J Flaster]

I'm trying to update the publishers on b128a and I'm getting the following 
error. The error will also occur if I attempt a refresh.

$ pfexec pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS   URI
opensolaris.org  (preferred)  origin   online   
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/
dev   origin   online   
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/

$ pfexec pkg unset-publisher dev
Caching catalogs ...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 3088, in handle_errors
__ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 3065, in main_func
return callable(img, pargs)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 2238, in publisher_unset
api_inst.remove_publisher(prefix=name, alias=name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 1376, in 
remove_publisher
progtrack=self.__progresstracker)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 608, in 
remove_publisher
self.remove_publisher_metadata(pub, progtrack=progtrack)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 1549, in 
remove_publisher_metadata
self.__rebuild_image_catalogs(progtrack=progtrack)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 1363, in 
__rebuild_image_catalogs
kcat.append(cat, cb=pub_append_cb, pubs=[pfx])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/catalog.py", line 1700, in append
self.__append(src, cb=cb, pfmri=pfmri, pubs=pubs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/catalog.py", line 1137, in 
__append
merge, mdata = cb(src, f, entry)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py", line 1353, in 
pub_append_cb
mfst.set_content("\n".join(dpent["actions"]))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 337, in 
set_content
self.__add_action(action, excludes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 352, in 
__add_action
if "opensolaris.zone" in action.attrs and \
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'attrs'


pkg: This is an internal error.  Please let the developers know about this
problem by filing a bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org and including the
above traceback and this message.  The version of pkg(5) is 'b987b1a759cb'.
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Re: [osol-help] Can I update OpenSolaris to dev but ONLY to 129? (xdmcp probs in 130)

[Paul Gress]

On 01/ 6/10 06:42 AM, Dave Price wrote:

Dear All,

The current xdmcp problems (i.e. it does not work) in 130 mean its quite 
impossible for me to move to 130. Other thread/bugzilla have things on that 
problem...

HOWEVER, I would like to try moving forward to 129.

Is there an easy way to use the IPS packagemanager but say
I ONLY want to go forward to 129 for everything and not 130?

I am looking at both our T5140 SPARCs in this and our various
X86 boxes...

Dave Price
   


I guess you could install the 129 release from:

http://www.genunix.org/


then add individual packages from here:

http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/catalog.shtml?version=0.5.11%2C0.5.11-0.129&action=Browse


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[osol-help] How to enable vt-x/AMD-v

[B]

I have tried to install 64 bit build 130 into 2 machines, each time it tells me 
that I need to enable vt-x/AMD-V in my bios.

I enabled on my notebook the only thing related to virtualization but it still 
won't load in 64 bit...Any ideas? Thanks
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

Thanks, worked great, however still waiting for the extras repository list to 
load...Taking a long time on my connection...There must be alot of stuff in 
there.
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[?????? ???????]

My suggestion is to use the GUI Package Manager to install Flash. 

To do this you need access to extras repository. In order to access it you will 
need a sun on-line account and appropriate certificates for extras repository. 
Sun on-line registration is free and so are needed certificates. Go to this 
website [url]https://pkg.sun.com/register/[/url]. It has all needed 
information. Once you have registered and generated required certificates, 
download them to some easily accessible directory.

Open the package manager  and click on the publishers button. You will have 
option to add new publisher. It will ask you for a friendly name (what you type 
in this field is irrelevant) and Internet location. Location of the extras 
repository is https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra . It will also be shown on 
the site from which you can download certificates.

Once you put the location in appropriate field, two new options will show up in 
the window. They will allow you to select location of key and certificate 
needed to access repository.  Browse to location where you placed the key and 
certificate and select the appropriate file (the other one will be selected 
automatically). Add the repository. 

Once the repository is added, you will be able to install software from it. 
Among other thing you will see installation for flash player which works with 
Firefox that came with Opensolaris. Install it like any other package (select 
check-box next to the name and click install button) and flash should work. 
Although I used a lot of space to type the instructions (you said you were a 
newbie), this method is in fact much simpler than installation from package 
available from Adobe.
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Re: [osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[Tom Whitten]

B writes:
> Downloaded to downloads folder Flash Player and tried installing from 
> terminal based on instructions from web...Keeps telling me no such file or 
> directory...Any ideas?
> 
> bunzip2 flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2

Are you uttering this command in the directory where the flash_... file is
located?  What do you see if you type the ls command?

> bunzip2: Can't open input file flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2: No such 
> file or directory.
> 
> tar -vxf flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar

The tar file won't be there until you get the bunzip2 command to work.

> tar: flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Okay, probably a stupid newbie error...Any suggestions?
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Re: [osol-help] Dependency Issue in >snv_127 pkg image Update

[Thomas Nielsen]

FWIW, 

I manged to work around what appears to be the same issue by manually upgrading 
from snv_127 to snv_128a before upgrading to snv_130.
I did have to fix the package publiser issue first, and I had no packages 
installed from contrib nor any other publishers - so YMMV.

1) boot into snv_127

2) manually upgrade to snv_128a:

pfexec beadm create snv_128a
pfexec beadm mount snv_128a /mnt
pfexec pkg -R /mnt install ent...@0.5.11,5.11-0.128
pfexec bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
pfexec beadm activate snv_128a 

3) reboot into snv_128a

4) run pkg manager, which detects snv_130 and (seemingly) gets the package 
dependencies, and  updates/additions/removals correct. 

I should add it is still downloading the snv_130 pkgs, but once this far 
there's hopefully not too many extra surprises.

Hope this helps :)

T

PS: If you have an Nvidia graphics card - have a good look at the release notes 
for snv_130
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[osol-help] Cannot get Adobe Flash Player to install

[B]

Downloaded to downloads folder Flash Player and tried installing from terminal 
based on instructions from web...Keeps telling me no such file or 
directory...Any ideas?

bunzip2 flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2
bunzip2: Can't open input file flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2: No such 
file or directory.

tar -vxf flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar
tar: flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Okay, probably a stupid newbie error...Any suggestions?
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Re: [osol-help] LiveCD won't boot past copyright header

[Rob Healey]

DL320s is a WEIRD beast... 
Strange BIOS, whacky motherboard. Get a DL180 series instead.

To your question:

The DVD drive on the DL320s is attached via USB; weird.

Solaris of ANY sort can't drive the bizzare USB controller on this beast, I've 
been waiting for YEARS for someone in Solarisland to add support with no luck.

If you can add in a SCSI controller and find a SCSI based DVD drive then 
Solaris of any sort works fine.

For now we just run Solaris 10 loaded from CD's on the 320 waiting for 
depreciation to let us get a DL180 to replace it...

-Rob
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[osol-help] Ad-hoc support on Atheros AR928X

[Matthew Nawrocki]

Hi...

  I have an Atheros AR928X card in my netbook. Does the arn driver support ad 
hoc wireless networks? I want to connect to my cell phone which broadcasts an 
ad hoc wifi signal for tethering. If the arn driver doesn't support it, how 
about an NDISwrapped Broadcom driver and the wifi card swapped out with a 
bcm43xx? Thanks!

Matt
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Re: [osol-help] Opensolaris Virtualbox Question

[B]

Thanks got opensolaris working last night

any idea why both ubuntu and centos 5.4 will only give me 800x600 resolution on 
my monitor when opensolaris immediately gives me 1280x1024?

The first time I tried ubuntu it gave me 1280x1024 and now will only make 
800x600...This is a viewsonic VG930M Monitor..

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Re: [osol-help] Opensolaris Virtualbox Question

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> Yes.
> 
> I created the virtual image off the live cd but there
> is no cd in the drive, in case you were wondering...
> 
> I think that I see where you are going with
> this...Since the build 130 CD uses 646MB..The
> additional 21MB free is probably what was left on the
> CD...So, how do I put the proper image in virtual
> box? Do I have to install from the live cd image into
> the virtual machine?
> 

Go to ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/

then do a "ls -al" command to see the size of your OpenSolaris vdi image.

Also do a "df" in Ubuntu.  Is it possible that you might have created a 
separate /home partition during installation?  Ubuntu will create a separate 
/home partition if you choose the entire disk.
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Re: [osol-help] Trying 2009.06 on T42 laptop, can't get Samsung Ptr to work. Help?

[Kim Wibbing]

Well, since no one is answering, I'll through something in.  

I think that the Live CDs are simply not running all the proper daemons for the 
printer to function.  The Live CD for OpenSolaris has the popular driver for my 
printer listed and it automatically uses it, but I believe when you do a 
crontab -l there's nothing really running after booting to the Live CD...which 
would explain why nothing will print...I think.

The printer works fine under Windows so I knwo the printer, cables, et al are 
fine.

I tried it under Ubunto 9.10, OpenSUSE 11.2, etc (haven't tried my MINT CD 
yet), but the printer acts the same way--nothing.

And I do believe there's a CUPs daemon or something that needs to be running in 
order to print, and I didn't see anything.  But I haven't been the printer 
goddess in 9 years (I'm an old Solaris SA from long ago), and I'm so rusty that 
I could be wrong on this ;).

So, I'm guessing that if I do a full install to the HD and boot up with all nec 
processes running, it'll print just fine.  I'll test to make sure that my 
theory is correct.  At any rate, the drivers for my printer have been out for 
quite a while (for LINUX, anyway) so I'm assuming that they're not the prob. 

Ubuntu is using the SpliX V2.0.0 as recommended, and it didn't work, either.  
FOOMATIC is on all of them; didn't work.  But again, I bet if I check the 
daemons under root, nothing is running that I need to get a printer to work.  
(Some of the CDs I don't have the root password to check.)

For all of you who have a Samsung cheapo printer, for your amusement:

http://splix.ap2c.org/



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Re: [osol-help] LiveCD won't boot past copyright header

[W Brian Leonard]

Hi Bede,

According to the HCL, your HP is certified for Solaris 10, but it says 
nothing about OpenSolaris:


   * http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/33095.html
   * http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/33096.html

But as a certified Solaris 10 machine, I would like to think OpenSolaris 
would also work.


Does the machine have any OS on it today? If so, you could try running 
the Device Detection Tool 
 to see what it 
reports. If all the devices are reported to work, a support contract 
should cover this. Here's the information on pricing: 
http://www.sun.com/service/opensolaris/.


Regards,
Brian

Bede Carroll wrote:

Just a quick semi related question on this but do the Sun/OpenSolaris support 
contracts cover this kind of thing? Because at this point I can't even get 
OpenSolaris installed so I'm wondering if it would be something worth buying?

Thanks for the help

Bede
  


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Re: [osol-help] Opensolaris Virtualbox Question

[W Brian Leonard]

Then you just need to unmount the iso, as you're still booting in the 
Live CD.


Shut down the machine and select Settings then select the Storage 
category. Select the CD/DVD Device and make sure it's set to Empty.


/Brian

B wrote:

Yes.
  


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Re: [osol-help] LiveCD won't boot past copyright header

[Bede Carroll]

Just a quick semi related question on this but do the Sun/OpenSolaris support 
contracts cover this kind of thing? Because at this point I can't even get 
OpenSolaris installed so I'm wondering if it would be something worth buying?

Thanks for the help

Bede
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Re: [osol-help] Is XEN at OpenSolaris ready for productive Use?

[Dunc]

Henri Maddox wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'ld like to use an OpenSolaris Based Machine as VM-Server (In the same way 
> like using a VMWare Server).
> 
> Is this realistic and stable? 
> 
> Is XEN already able to export the VMs in VMWares ESX Format?
> 
> Could you show me the doku? Searching for "xen" on wikis.sun.com only points 
> to older xvm documents.
> 
> Is there a free Version of the Ops Center?
> 
> Questions about Questions, hope someone could help me.
> 
> Thanks allot 
> Henri

Hi,

I've been using it for quite a while, it seemed to be quite slow earlier
on, but recently it's very good. Since build 126, there's no 32bit host
support any more, but it also became extremely easy to get up and running.

I'm currently wondering myself whether to use it for production, so far
I've been doing some non-crtical stuff on it and it's been extremely
good. I think once the 2010.02 release is out it will be entirely
supported, so maybe you'd want to wait for that.


I've no idea about management tools, one of the reasons I'm using it is
that I don't want any crazy GUIs, I'm quite happy doing everything over
SSH with CLI commands.

You can get it to use vmware and other style disk images (vmdk, vdi etc)
see vdiskadm, I've no idea what "ESX format" is, but I;m guessing it
just describes the VM. I've just used the libvirt way of describing
them, I dunno if that's the same or not.

Hope any of this helps.

Cheers,

Dunc

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[osol-help] Can I update OpenSolaris to dev but ONLY to 129? (xdmcp probs in 130)

[Dave Price]

Dear All,

The current xdmcp problems (i.e. it does not work) in 130 mean its quite 
impossible for me to move to 130. Other thread/bugzilla have things on that 
problem...

HOWEVER, I would like to try moving forward to 129.

Is there an easy way to use the IPS packagemanager but say
I ONLY want to go forward to 129 for everything and not 130?

I am looking at both our T5140 SPARCs in this and our various
X86 boxes...

Dave Price
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Re: [osol-help] Opensolaris Virtualbox Question

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> Yes.
> 
> I created the virtual image off the live cd but there
> is no cd in the drive, in case you were wondering...
> 
> I think that I see where you are going with
> this...Since the build 130 CD uses 646MB..The
> additional 21MB free is probably what was left on the
> CD...So, how do I put the proper image in virtual
> box? Do I have to install from the live cd image into
> the virtual machine?

While I haven't done that in awhile with OpenSolaris (I've preferred
SXCE as long as it was available, from long years of using CDE), I think
the answer is yes. A LiveCD is typically meant to give someone a
_preview_ of a system (or as a recovery boot disk, or a way to test
hardware compatibility, or ...); neither a physical LiveCD nor a virtual one
(iso file copy of a LiveCD attached to a virtual CD device) is really
meant to be equivalent to a permanent installation _until_ it's installed;
under VirtualBox, that means attaching the iso as the CD and a vdi
(or other supported format of virtual drive) as a disk device, and then
running the installation off of the virtual CD, just as if you were installing
from a physical LiveCD into a physical system.

(Hint: a virtual SATA disk controller is supposed to perform better than an
IDE controller, and unlike (say) Windows XP, OpenSolaris has a SATA
driver built-in, so there's no extra step needed during installation.)

There are sites that distribute pre-installed VirtualBox vdi files
(including for OpenSolaris, although probably not too current).  I
think that at one point, Sun had some evaluation DVDs (or CDs?)
for colleges and such that included such an image.  But I don't
know if there's one that Sun is keeping current now.  A shame
if someone doesn't, both because (for those who already have
VirtualBox or VMware installed) it's even better for familiarization
than a LiveCD, and because having a current vdi (or better, vmdk,
supported by both VMware and VirtualBox) available would mean
that OpenSolaris would get more use (and thus testing) in such
virtualized environments.
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