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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.

By  Andy Tucker, at Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:48:00 AM 

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.

By  Anonymous, at Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:56:00 AM 

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 ?

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:52:00 PM 

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.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, August 07, 2006 9:43:00 PM 

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.

By  Kambei, at Monday, August 28, 2006 5:17:00 AM 

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

By  Anonymous, at Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:57:00 AM 

>> 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.

By  Juan, at Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:52:00 AM 

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

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:39:00 AM 

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?

By  Miles, at Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:46:00 PM 

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

By  UMBC Student, at Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:43:00 PM 

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

By  Ken Hansen, at Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:12:00 PM 

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