On Friday 23 March 2007, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: > Daniel Baum wrote: > > Today I tried to install Solaris 10. It _does_ work, contrary to the > > table on the virtualbox site. Installation was quite straightforward, and > > I managed to boot the system and get to a Gnome desktop. > > > > However, it appeared to be unable to detect my network card. Suse has no > > trouble seeing it (configured to NAT), and neither, BTW, does Solaris > > under vmware server. > > Known issue, otherwise we would have changed the status on the supported > OS page (Solaris working without network means that it doesn't work). > We're waiting for some info from Sun what that Solaris pcn driver does > which makes our AMD PCNet device not work properly. IIRC it > works slightly better (but still not fully) if you use host interface > networking and a fixed guest IP instead of NAT and DHCP. We tried it a > while ago with sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd.iso which can be downloaded.
Some time ago I was able to get Solaris work using a RARP daemon connected to a host-only network interface (tap) on the host side. I used the rarpd package of Debian. Kind regards, Frank -- ## InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de ##
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