Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Ian Collins
Tim Scanlon wrote: I might be a bit more excited if they did a non amd64 Solaris build... Seriously wtf? It's not rocket science and they did it for every flavor of linux under the sun... They have, it's an AMD/Intel build. Ian ___

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Huff
I pulled out my build 66 starter kit, installed it and then downloaded the package and after installing that I made up an windows 2003 virtual machine and the speed appears to be well within acceptable limits -it's a good sight faster than qemu is (which I was surprised to find out). My mind

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community, because we don't control our Trademark a

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Huff
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:16 PST Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol.. fwiw- i've never in my life encountered a mailing list with more subscribers who cannot seem to configure their mua's to wrap at standard 72 characters... this one seems to be 100... no offense, but talk

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community,

2008-02-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:16 PST Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol.. fwiw- i've never in my life encountered a mailing list with more subscribers who cannot seem to configure their mua's to wrap at standard 72 characters... this one seems to be 100... no

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community,

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Huff
Still hoping for NNTP based forums one day... Interesting idea ...this list is accessible through gmane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.general Which should be accessible through whatever nntp client you use (it should be as simple as setting news.gmane.org as your news

Re: [osol-discuss] Authoring an HD DVD

2008-02-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 15 February 2008 05:06:12 Francois Dion wrote: Alright, I know some might say heresy, Sun is a Bluray partner and all, but I'm looking at the following. I'm currently archiving my non HD video recordings to DVD-R. I have 2 DVD burners on my sun box. Using a script that takes

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community, because we don't control our Trademark a

2008-02-15 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:18:31 PST Michael Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:16 PST Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol.. fwiw- i've never in my life encountered a mailing list with more subscribers who cannot seem to configure their mua's to wrap at

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Lurie
I believe gentry was referring to 64bit vs 32bit, there's only a 64bit binary available for download. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Mario Goebbels
My mind might change on that when I try to do anything more strenuous than browse the web with it, of course, but for now it seems really nice What I've noticed is that it's pretty invasive on the host system. I was trying to watch a PAL resolution video with mplayer on Solaris while

[osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Burlison
Indeed, I installed ae by following the instructions in the readme and have DP2 working in VirtualBox on Mac OS X - should work for other OpenSolaris distros on other platforms as far as I can see. I've put an ISO of the ae driver tarball on

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Burlison
Also, I am only able to get 1024x768 screen. See http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/entry/kicking_both_tyres_together_virtualbox for instructions on how to increase the resolution. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community,

2008-02-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Still hoping for NNTP based forums one day... Interesting idea ...this list is accessible through gmane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.gene ral Which should be accessible through whatever nntp client you use (it should be as simple as setting news.gmane.org as

[osol-discuss] kstat/ snort

2008-02-15 Thread Gregor
Hi I want to figure out how many packets are getting dropped at the NIC when I use a packet sniffer like snort. When I try to access the nocanput figure via se nx.se at the same time as doing a tcpreplay (from another machine) and a tcpdump on the host interface - bge1- ( to simulate a busy

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Watkins
The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-) I see Indiana is an experiment well I think it is more than that! From: Net Talks Webcast Details: Sorting Out Solaris Releases

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Andrew Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-) I see Indiana is an experiment well I think it is more than that! Marketing and

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Josh Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare Server is free now. I don't know what features the Workstation has, but the Server seems to satisfy all my needs. It soes not satisfy my needs as it does not run on Solaris. VirtualBox is not yet complete but it runs on Solaris and I have just beeen

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Miner
Andrew Watkins wrote: The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-) I see Indiana is an experiment well I think it is more than that! Eventually, we expect it will be more, that's what Larry is saying.

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Josh Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare Server is free now. I don't know what features the Workstation has, but the Server seems to satisfy all my needs. It soes not satisfy my needs as it does not run on Solaris. VirtualBox is not yet complete but it runs on Solaris and I have

[osol-discuss] One opinion for charting forward (long)

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Martin
(my apologies for length and lack of 80 column widths) Ok, here's my opinion for what a CE distribution plan might look like. This is intended as just a strawman, and I'm ignoring for a second the availability of resources and the time it would take to accomplish these goals. Requirements:

Re: [osol-discuss] Increase swap space when its mirrored

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Lee
Why do you want to mirror swap? I would take swap off of mdb and use the two partitions as swap. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Dave Miner wrote: Andrew Watkins wrote: The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-) I see Indiana is an experiment well I think it is more than that!

Re: [osol-discuss] Increase swap space when its mirrored

2008-02-15 Thread Brandorr
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you want to mirror swap? I would take swap off of mdb and use the two partitions as swap. What happens when you have important process pages temporarily swapped out to disk and that disk fails? (Two swap partitions,

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-) I realize from that answer that my question was ill-formed. It's clear that there is some

Re: [osol-discuss] Storage driver developer

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Chang
Hi Artem, I have a technical question here but can't find an answer. In Linux, it provides spin_lock_irq() and spin_unlock_irq(). Does Solaris provide similar functions? Thanks. Steve Chang HighPoint Technologies, Inc. 408-240-6115 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Dave Miner wrote: Andrew Watkins wrote: The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-)

Re: [osol-discuss] One opinion for charting forward (long)

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Walker
Mark Martin wrote: -Ask the Testing CG to devise a strategy for quality assurance, focusing on some determined levels of compatibility and stability as they might devise. Again, make the output of such work intended as guidance and as high level as necessary (but no higher). It might be

Re: [osol-discuss] Running Indy2 in SXDE4 under VirtualBox

2008-02-15 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Screenshot 03: First screen of Indy2 LiveCD running in SXDE4, selecting keyboard. (This screen has a very serious political ramification, I have submitted a bug report, someone better pay some attention, or at least not show Indiana to any Chinese officials.) Thanks for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-15 Thread Dr. Robert Pasken
Based on the dual-core Opteron win 8gb of memory, dual SATA with an Nvidia graphics card, you MAY find the CPU performance better, BUT the disk and video will be awful. I've been disappointed with everything but the integer performance on my x86 box This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Basics of Solaris 10

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Walmsley
Hope you love to read. http://docs.sun.com/ :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-15 Thread Ian Collins
Dr. Robert Pasken wrote: Based on the dual-core Opteron win 8gb of memory, dual SATA with an Nvidia graphics card, you MAY find the CPU performance better, BUT the disk and video will be awful. I've been disappointed with everything but the integer performance on my x86 box So your