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Nice writeup, but there's no need to reinstall to change the number of virtual cpus - Solaris uses the same kernel binaries for UP and SMP, so the same image will boot either way.

Just wanted to ask if there is a way to increase the screen resolution. i have set it to the 1280 by 1024 in the settings but its displaying it as 680 x 480.

hi, thx for the guide but i ve a problem, when I start my virtual machine with the correct settings it gives me GRUB boot screen, but when I select anyone it keeps restarting all the time and never passes the boot option screen. I am getting nuts here cuz I could not install it since it doesnt passes the boot screen. I tried everything disconnet the CDROM select other boot options but somehow the installation was never started. can someone give me some idea ?

I get the same problem. When I boot to sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-a.iso from qemu all I get is a grub> prompt.

I had the same problem with the annoying grub prompt. After re-reading the installation instructions, I realized that we're supposed to concatenate the ISO files into one big file. This would have been more obvious if Sun offered a "single DVD image" download option.

hello, I will like to know the fact that the Vmware is evaluation copy did you buy the Vmware after your 30 days when you licences expired, or you were still able to run yur vmware after the 30 days thanks

>> I get the same problem. When I boot to sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-a.iso from qemu all I get is a grub> prompt.


I also have the same issue in my laptop. It is a macbook pro, and i'm trying to install it with parallel windows. I get the same issue of the grub prompt, and nothing else. The problem is that I joined all the files, into the correct dvd file, since i checked the hash, and is exactly the same it should be.

I seem to get the same problem with some versions of linux too. For example, suse and debian will install smoothly, but when I try to for mandriva, I have to do some stuff first in order to launch the installer.

Anyways, I guess is just the VM thingy, I will try it on my big baby tomorrow. I will see if I can fix the issue, and post it here.

Thanks.

Hi guys. If anyone finds solution for why solaris 10 keeps restarting after installation on vmware, pls send your comment to my email. rcelik1@gmail.com

Does anyone know how to get the guest OS (Solaris 10 6/06, running on VMware workstation v 5.5.3) talking to the host OS's hard drive? I need to transfer files from my winXP host machine to the guest machine, but haven't managed it yet. There seems to be two documented ways of doing it:
- the host OS should be mounted using hgfs as /mnt/hgfs. Unfortunately whenever I start the VM I get an error "hgfs cannot be started"
- install te vmware tools, use a USB key drive, and enable it from the VM menu in the workstation. I try this, but the workstation doesn't pick up the key.

Any ideas?

Appreciate the write up and especially how you put it in a separate pdf. Exactly what I was looking for.

I just wanted to share a few things regarding your write up (excellent job, BTW): Sun now has several pre-built virtual "appliance" (Solaris 10 1/06, Solaris 10 6/06, Solaris 10 11/06, and Solaris Express Developer Edition) here: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp (down near bottom of page) If you choose to try their build, there are a few caveats: Networking is set up as "nat" - you should consider changing it to "bridged" in the configuration text file. Video defaults to 23??x17?? resolution by default, consider editing the file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and delete all screen resolutions you don't want. I left 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768, and my machine boots into 1024x768 with great color depth (better than 256 available with Xsun), and runs the Xorg Xserver. Under VMPlayer 1.? you'll get a lot of USB error messages - upgrading to VMPlayer 2.? gets rid of them. You will get "unable to start HGFS" messages, I haven't investigated them yet... And finally, Sun suggests running "sys-unconfig" to reset many system settings to suit your application (hostname, root password, networking settings) - I wish they simply "froze" the virtual machine after running "sys-unconfig" allowing the user to set them on initial system start-up. Ken

Installation fails says fdisk cannot create partitions and generally deal with the virtual drive. Any suggestions?

Kevin,

I was having similar problems. When I tried to install on 25 GB IDE or SCSI virtual drives, I would get FDISK/layout errors. I ended up creating a 45 GB IDE virtual disk, which seems to work. It is silly because the install I selected should only use a couple of GBs.

Does anyone know how to get the guest OS (Solaris 10, Linux and windows 2003 running on VMware workstation v 5.5.3) talking to the host OS's (windows vista).
Every OS is configure with two Ethernet cards (Bridge & NAT). but it seems like they are not able to communicate.
Actually, I've want to ping all 4 machine from each other and also want to access internet from all OS.
If anyone knows how to configure please let me know step by step.

Thanks

I have insttaled vm ware workstion on windows 2003 server. also i have windows xp on vm ware installed but i cannt comuionicat with both of them. i cannt open fill from xp on windows server can any body help me with that
thank you

i have installed solaris 10 in vmware and i got the gui mode but i am getting this error once the system gets reboot
warning : The following files in / differ from the boot archive: /etc/path_to_inst

Cannot find : /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache

I will be thankfull if you any one could please resolve my problem.