W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> Attached is a screenshot showing Indy2 running in >> SXDE4 under VirtualBox. >> > > I know I am getting carried away, but-- > > I used to work in Exxon's Prudhoe Bay field (at that time it was producing > close to 2 million barrels of oil a day). Located near the Arctic circle, > there were times I was wondering whether the sun would ever come back out > again. Of course I was being silly. > > As Mario passionately pictured, there were also times many of us wondered > whether we would EVER be able to run Solaris as a VirtualBox host. Silly > again. :-) > > However, it should be noted that the Solaris port of VirtualBox is only a > beta, and it came out, AFAIK, only yesterday. I am sure there are many loose > ends that need to be taken care of. Some of the inadequacies are major, > e.g., it does not seem to have the NIC driver (for Solaris host), yet. But > if my experience at Prudhoe Bay could be of any help (to me anyway), the Sun > will always come out shinning. >
The driver needed is pcn which is non-redistributable so Indiana does not bundle it. But SXDE does bundle the driver, so the NIC works. See here: http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/entry/kicking_both_tyres_together_virtualbox Regards, Moinak. > Yeah, yeah, I really got carried away. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
