I’m currently watching a Solaris 10 install under QEMU on my laptop. It seems to be taking a while, but getting there.
(I got a Solaris 10 DVD in my AUUG shwag)
Basically, I want to play with DTrace and see how easy it is to do things with it. Solaris seems to be the requirement. I don’t want to have a partition for it nor run it as a primary OS. So, qemu it is.
I can also then use the funky disk image foo with qemu so that i don’t waste a lot of space (mmm… sparse disk images).
For a 7GB qemu-img created filesystem, used intirely as /, it seems that there’s 128MB overhead for having the file system. The installer is chugging away writing things and this seems to be constant.
So, all in all i should end up using a bit less than 3GB of real disk space for a full Solaris 10 install in a qemu image.
How is project memberdb coming?
I am trying to do the same but qemu seems to be hanged. Could you tell me which params have you used to run qemu with Solaris?
solaris 10? x86 or sparc ,which one?
x86
Hi,
I am also trying to install Solaris10 under QEMU.
I downloaded the cd version of Solaris10 from Solaris download center.
Do I need to combine the muliple CD parts into a single one or I could do it separately as well?
Could anyone please tell me how could i combine into a single iso?
Thanks and Regards,
Neelam
Do you think that it will also work with the sparc version of solaris?
@Neelam
Just unzip each part and then run “cat part-a part-b part-c part-d part-e > solaris.iso” (substitute part-* with the names of the unzipped files)
Solaris.iso will be the DVD-ISO you were searching for ;)