Tag Archives: OpenSolaris

Sun’s xVM VirtualBox

My experiment in using Fedora 10′s built-in virtualisation technology  (based on KVM and qemu / kqemu) to install OpenSolaris didn’t go too well! I find the emulator to be just too slow for my taste, but I’m not sure if … Continue reading

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Installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 in a virtual machine within Fedora 10 (or any Linux with KVM)

I need to set up some OpenSolaris servers for a pet project, and so I can educate myself about the ins and outs of OpenSolaris. I don’t have lots of server hardware lying around spare and I don’t want to … Continue reading

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Shouting at your disk array is not supported

The power of OpenSolaris, with DTrace. A more detailed analysis follows in a Sun blog and a cnet article. OpenSolaris is downloadable for free from Sun Microsystems. It is a cutting edge open source Unix with some very nice features: … Continue reading

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