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Virtual Unix from Sun?

pontifex

pontifex

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I'm in a training class for my new job and the guy beside me told me that Sun has a virtual Unix software or something that you can either download or play with directly on the website.

Does anyone know what he might have been talking about?
 
ok. i downloaded it and Solaris 10 from Sun. I'll be using Solaris 10 at work, if I'm not mistaken. I set up a virtal machine with the xVM software and I am currently installing Solaris 10.

Is this probably the best way to do this without having a separate PC to install Unix on?

I don't really have any need for Unix other than to play around with it if I need to for work, like to practice different commands and stuff.
 
it's been sitting at "extracting windowing system, please wait" for like the past hour.

any idea what i need to do or does it normally take this long?
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
it's been sitting at "extracting windowing system, please wait" for like the past hour.

any idea what i need to do or does it normally take this long?
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I have no idea... but some installs (and sadly, especially sun installs) can take hours. Give it overnight before you panic and abort it.

The 'best' way is either to VM it (which you're doing) or do a legit dual boot... which is kinda a PITA with Solaris 10 anyway.
 
Originally posted by: degibson
Originally posted by: pontifex
it's been sitting at "extracting windowing system, please wait" for like the past hour.

any idea what i need to do or does it normally take this long?
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I have no idea... but some installs (and sadly, especially sun installs) can take hours. Give it overnight before you panic and abort it.

The 'best' way is either to VM it (which you're doing) or do a legit dual boot... which is kinda a PITA with Solaris 10 anyway.
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I let it run over night and it was still at the same message when I checked it again this morning.
 
try again?

I installed opensolaris in a VM fine ( no longer than a windows install), so i assume solaris 10 should'nt be _that_ much different?


I downloaded solaris 10, and will try it later, and post back 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Colt45
try again?

I installed opensolaris in a VM fine ( no longer than a windows install), so i assume solaris 10 should'nt be _that_ much different?


I downloaded solaris 10, and will try it later, and post back 🙂
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i've tried about 3 or 4 times now and always get the same thing.

I've never worked with a VM software before and i've never installed any unix or linux OS before either, so it's possible i set something up incorrectly.
 
generally pretty straight-forward IME.. I've found VMware tends to work better with some apps (although [virtualbox] being a sun product, i cant see it not working right with a sun os..), I'm not sure if i've ever run virtualbox on windows, come to think of it, but i don't recall hearing many issues..?
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
whats the difference between opensolaris and solaris 10?
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Not much in practice. OpenSolaris is a build of the OpenSolaris kernel (I think they call it Solaris Express, but that may be a deprecated name), which is a little bit off from mainline Solaris 10. OpenSolaris sometimes claims to be Solaris '11', as far as software packages are concerned. You can sometimes get Solaris 10 with a support package.

I'm going to echo Colt45's observation: Its unusual that a Sun OS would fail on a Sun VM. You should see if Sun has a forum on this topic and post there.
 
i found a thread on another forum that had the problem and someone had mentioned it needing at least 768 mb ram to run, so I bumped my VM up to 1 GB just to be safe and i'm trying it again.


lol, that did it...i went back to check on it after posting this and it had already made it past the extracting windowing system part.


i can't backspace though and i'm running into things that i don't know how to set up. maybe i'll just say screw it...
 
You'll just have to set up your keyboard right and it'll work just fine, backspace and all. 😉 You can do that in the system settings in the graphical interface or by editing your profile by hand.

Seriously Solaris isn't really the best way to get an introduction into the Unix/Unixlike world but i guess you don't have much of an option.


 
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
You'll just have to set up your keyboard right and it'll work just fine, backspace and all. 😉 You can do that in the system settings in the graphical interface or by editing your profile by hand.

Seriously Solaris isn't really the best way to get an introduction into the Unix/Unixlike world but i guess you don't have much of an option.
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i do have a little experience (very basic) from previous jobs but I never had to do much and pretty much everything i had to do was like scripted so i just followed the directions and didn't really know what i was doing for the most part.


with this job, I will be working entirely in Solaris 10 as my workstation and dealing with customers using unix, mostly solaris 10 also. we're using solaris 9 to train with since the computers they have set up are pretty old and are even slow with solaris 9.
 
To setup your keyboard's delete:

stty erase ^H

The above should be fore backspace, either that or ^?, in anycase, just hit the key that you want to become the erase character if it is not already set that way. You can copy/paste and put it in your "~/.cshrc" file or "~/.bashrc", or "~/.profile" (it depends on what shell you chose to use, .cshrc is for csh, bashrc is for bash, and profile is for bourne or sh).
 
Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
To setup your keyboard's delete:

stty erase ^H

The above should be fore backspace, either that or ^?, in anycase, just hit the key that you want to become the erase character if it is not already set that way. You can copy/paste and put it in your "~/.cshrc" file or "~/.bashrc", or "~/.profile" (it depends on what shell you chose to use, .cshrc is for csh, bashrc is for bash, and profile is for bourne or sh).
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no, this happens during the install, not after.
 
got it installed and running. it seems really slow to boot up though.

is there any way to raise the resolution higher than 1024x768?
 
i think the resolution problem is that the virtual machine says i am using 24 bit colors and it should be 32 bit so it won't allow me to use higher resolutions, but when i look at my desktop settings, it is set to 32 bit color.

I dunno...i deleted the virtual machine i created but I still have VirtualBox installed.

Isn't there a free version of VMware or some other virtual pc software? I may try that instead.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Isn't there a free version of VMware or some other virtual pc software? I may try that instead.
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VMWare has a free 'player' that allows you to run an existing VM but not make a new one.

Edit: KVM and QEMU are both free, but run on top of Linux.
 
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