I haven’t had the chance to finish installing Solaris 10 yet, as I ran out of time trying to copy down the ISO images before I left to go to Atlanta for some Network Appliance training. (By the way, have I mentioned how cool NetApp’s stuff is? No? It is.)
After first running into the problem with the Solaris 10 VM, I inquired with other private beta testers and later filed a bug report. Another user suggested I check this KB article; I tried adding the monitor_control.disable_longmode parameter to the VMX file and….it worked! Where Solaris had previously attempted to load a 64-bit kernel (and caused a host kernel panic) it now loaded a 32-bit kernel and everything seemed to work just fine.
I hope to finish the Solaris installation within the next couple of days and continue on with some additional testing.
UPDATE: I finished the Solaris installation earlier today and it runs just fine. I haven’t installed the VMware Tools for Solaris yet, but based on my work with Solaris on ESX Server I don’t expect any problems there.
Tags: ESX, Macintosh, NetApp, Solaris, Virtualization, VMware
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 1:11 am
C
I’ve seen a few problems caused by NetApp devices not supporting sidhistory, so accounts that are migrated between domains lose permission to access their files. I’ve always thought this was a pretty poor effort for a device that supposedly integrates properly into a Windows AD.
Any idea if this is still an issue?
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 6:34 am
slowe
C,
I don’t know if that is still an issue, but I’ll see what information I can dig up.
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 6:18 am
Mark
solaris 10 x86 (update 5 in particular) 64bit can be installed, but must be installed using the command line tools with vmware’s ram set to 400MB, you can do a full install from here so that you will get the GUI once you increase the RAM to 512 or more.
hope that helps.