A while ago I tested OpenSolaris 2008.5 under Virtualbox. Time to test the latest release.
As everybody knows OpenSolaris is a excellent Operating System offering lots of superior features. Follow the steps to install the latest release 2008.11 under KVM/QEMU
Add a network adapter. I recommend you to use a default NAT networking connection
Choose
x86_64 if you got 64-Bit hardware and Solaris 10 as Operating SystemLogin and become root to execute the command:
svcadm disable gdmThis command disables the graphical login immediately and for future sessions.
You can choose
OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 text boot from the GRUB menu to have text output during startup. In my configuration sometimes the splashscreen doesn’t disappear after a successful startup. That could cause you some trouble if you can’t access your Virtual Machine by SSH or Terminal.Now edit GRUB configuration for textmode during startup. If you ran an update of you current image make the lasst entry in your menu.lst looks something my one.
vim /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
title opensolaris-1 text boot
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
#splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
#foreground d25f00
#background 115d93
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1
#kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
I was having trouble running Opensolaris under KVM using 512MB RAM. Once I increased that to 750MB it ran fine.