Ben Sutton » VirtualBox http://www.webmonkeys.org.uk VoIP, Ham Radio, Linux Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Solaris 10/08 and VirtualBox http://www.webmonkeys.org.uk/index.php/2009/01/29/solaris-1008-and-virtualbox/ http://www.webmonkeys.org.uk/index.php/2009/01/29/solaris-1008-and-virtualbox/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:39:30 +0000 Ben http://www.webmonkeys.org.uk/?p=69 Just in case this helps someone Googling around – if you are trying to install Solaris 10/08 on VirtualBox and find its taking forever and throwing Java errors – increase the RAM on the virtual machine to around a gig. Using the default 512Mb I was having all sorts of problems.

I highly recommend giving Solaris a whirl. Especially if your interested in storage – ZFS is a rather good filesystem and well worth playing with. Recent developments are making it a viable desktop solution – hopefully there will be more interesting features in the future to help it stick out from the crowd.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

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