Solaris issues (again)

[pedlo]

I've been waiting for long for VBox 1.5.4 and the announced Solaris improvements, but unfortunately I'm not even able to start the installation (I was able with 1.5.2).
I'm using SunOS 5.11 build 70, I'm trying every kind of installation (Interactive desktop, interactive console, etc...) but it keeps hanging with "Setting up Java. Please wait..."
Cpu keeps working for ages, Ram is almost completely filled up, but nothing happens.

Any hints?

pedlo

[frank]

Our Solaris expert reports that he has to assign 1GB to the guest. Furthermore, several stages might take a very long time, for instance that stage you described.

[frank]

And please disable the VT-x / SVM setting of the VM.

[pedlo]

I'm actually running a P4 2.4Ghz with 1GB ram and Win2K as host, so I think I'll have to switch to another machine.
What I find curious is that with vbox 1.5.2 i was able to successfully end Solaris installations in the same machine.
Same problem now with Indiana, which is Opensolaris based.
(In case it can help, I have the same issues using Qemu).

I was interested in virtualizing Solaris for didactic purposes.
However, you guys at virtualbox are doing a good job. Keep up the good work.

[frank]

1GB RAM for the host might be a not enough, 2GB are advisable (1GB for the guest).

[kionysus]

This requires a disk image larger than 8 gigs...FYI. I tried to create an image with 12 and it died on Fdisk with:

ERROR: Could not create Solaris disk label (VTOC)

ERROR: Could not label disks

ERROR: Could not update disks with new configuration

ERROR: System installation failed

It did make it into the new graphical installer though; unfortunately since I had to turn off AMD-V to actually get it to quit barfing when it tried the initial device configuration, it only detected the emulated hardware as a 32-bit environment and therefore didn't try to install the 64-bit version of the os.

I should probably point out I'm running VB 1.5.4 on Vista Ultimate 64-bit

[miraculist]

I had the same errors message.

However, I did install Solaris 10 successfully with allocate a fixed-size disk image(8 GB), 1024mb ram, 128 mb video ram.

Unfortunately, the performance was extremely low during the installtion.

Try it

my environment :
Ubuntu 7.04
Virtualbox 1.5.4

[kionysus]

Yeah, mine was a fixed disk image of 12GB and 8MB video memory with 1 GB RAM