Category Archives: OpenSolaris

Sun Net Talk: Sorting Out Solaris Releases

This Net Talk titled Sorting Out Solaris Releases is available here (web cast) and the audio is available at



No OpenOffice.org, No NetBeans, No OpenSolaris

Mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code’08 was announced recently and none of Sun backed big-wig projects- NetBeans, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris featured in the list. I was surprised, especially since the last 2 featured in last year’s list.

Did NetBeans apply?

Did OpenOffice.org apply?

OpenSolaris applied but was not selected (refer:
http://blogs.sun.com/gheet/entry/opensolaris_not_selected_by_gsoc
)

Connecting to the Internet from Indiana as the guest via NAT

After installing Indiana on Ubuntu 7.04 using Virtual Box I wanted to access the Internet from Indiana. I use a PPP connection to connect to the Internet on my host machine. All I had to do is:

  1. Enable NAT in the Virtual Box settings for the Indiana virtual machine
  2. Enable DHCP for the virtual network interface on Indiana and enable it so as to activate at boot time

..and it works!

Getting Started with Indiana on Ubuntu 7.04 and Virtual Box

UPDATE: Updated with OpenSolaris 2008.11 here at
http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/open_solaris_2008_11_on

The Open Solaris project Indiana is now available as a developer preview

A great feature is that you can start a Live CD session either:

  1. By burning the ISO to a CD, or
  2. Directly boot from the ISO using Virtual Box or QEMU

Lets get started with Virtual Box:

Choose OS Name and Type
Choose the memory (>512 MB)

Configuring the Virtual HDD

Choose the CD/DVD-ROM Device

  • Now, insert the Indiana CD into your ROM and start the Virtual Machine
  • You should see the GRUB menu:

  • Let us start a Text Console session

Booting…
Login with username “jack” and password “jack”

So, you are now ready to start exploring the Open Solaris command-line even without installing it!