Saturday, December 08, 2007

Tweaks to make Solaris Express work in VMWare

A quick blog to tell you two things you need to do to get Solaris Express to work with VMWare Fusion:

First, if you're using build 79, there is a bug where, during installation, you need to give Solaris just a little bit less than the available disk space. If you don't, the installation fails. This is logged as a P1 bug and hopefully will get fixed by the next build.

Second, after installation, VMWare will complain that you're trying to run a 32 bit operating system in a 64 bit host (or vice versa, I can't remember). To fix this, in add this line to the .vmx file in your image directory:

monitor_control.disable_longmode = 1

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