Comments on: Solaris 10 (x86) under VmWare

By: Eiad Al-Aqqad

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:09:27 +0000

Hi Sharad,

I believe your machine has some boot info with it from an installation that failed or something. That is normally the reason a VM keep restarting without trying to load the software. You can create a new VM and try to install in it.
or you can just force VM to enter BIOS Setup mode on next boot up, & change the first boot option to be the cd you want to install from.

Hope this help,
Eiad

By: Sharad Galande

Sharad Galande — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:54:55 +0000

HI Team,

I am tying to install Solaris 10 on Vmware 7 on my dell N4050 Laptop( HDD=500GB,RAM=4GB,CPU=I3).

But when its rebooting after installation process its not going to OS its restarting continiouslly. After splash screen its again restarting and restarting….

By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:22:47 +0000

Hi Dan,

I am very sorry as I was away from my blog for a while due to being stuck at few huge projects at work.

I understand that you have already resolved the issue by reinstalling it. If you still have any problem with it please post back.

Enjoy,
Eiad

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:32:47 +0000

I actually reinstalled it again.. and no.. not sure why…

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:28:06 +0000

Hi there!

I just installed Solaris 10 on VMware. Its running on a 2k3 server. Another machine on the network pings it non stop (ping -t), and i noticed that its showing “Request timed out” ever so often…

I then created another Solaris slice (complete installation from scratch), and it shows the same problem.

This does not happen to my Linux VMs / Win 2k3/8 VMs.

Any idea?
Thank!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:14:39 +0000

Hi Marcos,

You should look into setting up Samba on Solaris 10. That should give you the ability to create shared folders from Solaris that are accessible just as any other windows share folder in Vista.

I hope that help,
Eiad

By: Marcos

Marcos — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:10:33 +0000

Hi,

I’ve installed Solaris 10 as guest in Vmware in Windows Vista as host, how could I share folders from Solaris in Vista?

Thanks a lot!

By: VMware ESX server && Solaris 10 on same PC ??

VMware ESX server && Solaris 10 on same PC ?? — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:33:55 +0000

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By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:53:55 +0000

Does anyone know the performance of Solaris 10 on vSphere 4 ? Especially for memory intensive java applications.