Posts Tagged ‘Solaris’

Brief Notes on Installing OpenSolaris in VMWare Fusion

These notes pertain specifically to OpenSolaris build 105 and VMWare Fusion v.2.01 on MacOS Leopard 10.5.6 ~ The host machine is a 13″ macbook with 2GB ram. When initially creating a new virtual machine for Solaris 10 the default memory size is set to 580Mb.   At  this setting the install  either hangs or progresses so [...]

Using VMWare Fusion on OSX

I’ve been using VMWare’s Fusion product on my 1st gen Apple Macbook (2.0Ghz, 2GB ram, 160GB hard drive upgrade) sporadically now for about six months. I originally purchased the 1.0 version and was pleased when just a few weeks ago I found out that there was a free upgrade to 1.1 which included a few [...]