Long-awaited Solaris Enterprise System virtual appliance now available
First they open source Java, and now we get a Solaris 10 + Sun Enterprise System virtual machine. Somebody at Sun is definitely not getting coal in their stocking this year. VMware's Andy Tucker writes:
I've noted previously that one of the non-Sun distros of OpenSolaris (Nexenta) is available in a VM. Now, Sun has now quietly added the Solaris Enterprise System Virtual Machine 1.0 to the Sun Download Center (as a free download). This is Solaris 10 Update 1, plus the Studio 11 compilers, plus all the Java Enterprise System software - app server, web server, directory server, etc. - all in a VMware virtual machine. No OS or application install, just download and untar, fire up VMware Player/Server/Workstation (take your pick), and power the VM on.
Treat this as a 1.0, at least as far as fit-and-finish inside a virtual machine is concerned. Our alliances and appliances teams are working with Sun to install VMware Tools and implement other virtual appliance best practices. Most tweaks you can do yourself once you download it. This will be listed within our Virtual Appliances Marketplace very soon.
Posted by VMTN on November 28, 2006 in virtual appliances
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This is great!
I've been using VMware heavily for a while now, and I've written a couple of articles about it... but mostly I use it to test out things on other operating systems so I can write articles.
I had some problems installing Solaris 10, so this will help me out a great deal.
Thanks!
Posted by: The Geek | November 28, 2006 at 02:28 PM