solaris 10 u5 on ubuntu 8.04

p3t3 · Post by **p3t3** » 6. Jun 2008, 12:04

Hi Folks,

I have tried installing sol10u5 in vbox on the latest ubuntu i think 8.04 that is, and i tried vbox 1.5.6 from reps and compiled the vbox 1.6.0, everything starts ok but then when it gets to the actual copying of files here the story starts... it seems to hang at some point when copying the files and never resumes. tried to install solaris in vbox a few times and sometimes it stops at 30mbytes left to be copied sometimes 500mbytes etc... (talking bout the "give me all with oem" soft group of sol10) also tried installing it on windows xp but its the same problem!

when chose the core soft group (which is about 350 mbytes) all the files got copied fine and i got a running version of solaris.

i gave about 12GBytes for the virtual drive, so it's not the case of running out of space when installing the entire+oem soft group (~7Gbytes for /, as this was a test install i only chose to have /, swap, and /home)....

any of you guys faced any issues like that? wanted to ask before i file a bug...

thks Pete

Post by **frank** » 6. Jun 2008, 13:55

Try 1.6.2 which was released today.

p3t3 · Post by **p3t3** » 6. Jun 2008, 17:06

thks for the reply Frank will give it a try when i get back home

cheers
Pete

p3t3 · Post by **p3t3** » 8. Jun 2008, 18:58

tried 1.6.2 and it installed fine now, great

but i also increased the disk to 18GB and gave 1GB ram for it so don't know which one resolved this.

here the real fun starts, networking, i have followed this howto but no luck so far:

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vboxbridge.html (wireless section)

any suggestions before i reluctantly move to vmware?

thks pete