Ubuntu host, Solaris 10 Guest

[shorero]

Host: Linux splitter 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 18:43:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Guest: Solaris 10 05/08

It took a bit of fiddling to get this setup to work, but the final set of tweeks is actually fairly small.

1. There was no /etc/nodename file on the system at all. Create this file, containing a single line: the name you want this host to assume at boot time.

2. I wanted to do the simple NAT-style network configuration rather than, say, the more complicated (for me) host-interface network configuration. To get the NAT-style configuration to work, edit /etc/default/dhcpagent. Down a bit in the file (line 80 in my copy), there is a commented-out line REQUEST_HOSTNAME=no. Uncomment this line.

3. Reboot the guest. After these two changes, the guest came up for me with the right host/node name and with visibility to the network, including DNS lookups.