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Installing Solaris Express Developers Edition on ParallelsUsing Mac OSX Parallels 3.4, run a Solaris Express Developers Edition Desktop
Author: M Butcher At DrupalCon 2008, I attended a session hosted by a pair of Sun engineers. During this session, they talked a lot about Solaris Developers Edition, the new SAMP (Solaris, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, and the ability to rapidly develop complex applications on this platform. The Sun guys were giving out DVDs with Solaris, but unfortunately a whole bunch of people who didn't attend the presentation nabbed all the copies. So I couldn't get one. But the session piqued my interest. It's been a few years since I last fit into the category of "Solaris User", but with the many recent updates in Solaris (including it's now Open-Source status, the maturation of DTrace, and the development of GlassFish), I figured it was about time to give Solaris another try. And with Parallels... nothing could be easier. Right? Solaris Express Developers Edition is free for download on Sun's site, but it's also huge. Then I noticed that Sun was offering free DVDs on their site. I ordered one of those and waited patiently for it to come in the mail. When it arrived, I popped it into the optical drive and fired up parallels, running a default Parallels installation for Solaris 10. After a minute or so of (I assume) initializing the ramdisk from the DVD, the installer printed out a few lines about the OS version and license, and then the cursor sat there for a long time. A long time. A looong time. Three hours, to be precise. Since it took about 20 minutes to install Ubuntu 8.04 in Parallels, I decided something must be wrong. But a quick search of Google indicated only that others had experienced the same problem. Nobody seemed to have solved the problem, though. Just as I was coming to grips with the fact that I might have to chuck OpenSolaris after all, a thought occured to me: Parallels assigns very little memory to any virtual machine by default. Perhaps increasing the VM's allocated memory, I could get things going. After increasing the VM memory to 1024M, I restarted the installer, and within moments I was in X Windows answering installer questions. And from there the installation was smooth sailing. |
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