The host is Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, still in bleeding edge alpha (and hundreds of megabytes of updates).
OSX86 on kvm or qemu – no go immediately on boot.
OSX86 on VMware – stuck on boot.
OpenSolaris Indiana Preview 2 – Runs in kvm, but Cirrus Logic emulated VGA is not supported. Forcing VESA mode just blanks out [...]
Linux setup pending problems:
No CPU/system temperature from ACPI. (Ironically, hard drive temp is available but not in Windows.)
Ubuntu 7.10 installer is not compatible with KVM (Kernel Virtualization). It segfaults due to the fancy splash screen. Intel VT does not support x86 real mode instructions, but AMD virtualization does.
KVM in QEMU emulator mode crashes halfway [...]
SugarCRM 4.5.0f on Solaris 10 update2, x86 + MySQL. It should not change much for SPARC.
Follow the BigAdmin SAMP Feature Article. I added cURL support, “–with-curl=/opt/csw” on the configure command line. This needs the curl Blastwave package. I had to edit interface.c, replace the removed CURLOPT_FTPASCII with CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, and remove the CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION which I don’t [...]
I’m downloading a >3GB file on Azureus 2.5.0 that ships with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. It was working with Sun Java 1.5.0-08. But it crashed. I sent the crash logs to Sun.
Before starting the download with the Sun JDK, I tried gcj. But it jsut threw exceptions and the download didn’t start.
I tried the latest [...]
The Sun announcement about open source Java really got me excited about running a full Sun-developed open source stack.
I got Solaris Express Community Edition “nevada” b52. I tried it in the office VMware. Hangs at 100% of “the system is being initialized, please wait…”. Tried it at home, in VMWare under Ubuntu. Same thing. VMWare [...]
I just wanted to write what I’m doing with Solaris. Nothing really new, and nothing worth writing a full article about yet.
Developing training material, especially for those sysadmins coming from a Linux background.
Trying out OpenSolaris and related tools. I find user-generated documentation, separate from the Sun manuals, are coming more and more from the OpenSolaris [...]
Thanks to the Free NIC drivers for Solaris page, I got the vfe driver working for the VIA Rhine III onboard Ethernet. I followed the instructions, and tried loading the precompiled drivers first. No go. I recompiled them and it worked.
I found out that Solaris 10 now ships with gcc and gmake, as well as [...]
According to the webpage about setting up drivers for the VIA Rhine III Ethernet driver for Solaris 10 x86, I need to compile the driver source code. I figured that this would be easier to do under a VMWare Setup in Ubuntu, since at least there I have the emulated pcn0 (AMD PCnet) adapter for [...]
The problem booting the hard drive-installed Solaris from DVD, in my previous post, was just a typo (boot_archive, not boot-archive)
I decided to repartition the extended partition and get rid of the extra 2 GB. I created a FAT32 partition at the normal maximum, 32 GB, for file storage. I reinstalled Ubuntu, giving it 20 GB. [...]
I started the Solaris 10 installation. The installer partitioning system doesn’t seem very smart. It did point out that I had over 20 GB free on my 120 GB hard drive. This, while I was starved for space all along. I forgot all about a few cylinders.
I decided to fix up my hard drive. I [...]
