OpenSolaris, Virtualized

I've been asked a few times by various folks about the availability of OpenSolaris-based virtual machine images that can be played in VMware Player, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, etc..  I'm happy that I now have an answer - the Nexenta folks have made a preinstalled VM image available with their latest release (Alpha 4).  This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to try out OpenSolaris but doesn't have a spare machine to dedicate to it - you can use an existing Linux or Windows box, download VMware Player or Server and the VM image, and quickly be up and running with a nice slick distro based on the latest bleeding-edge OpenSolaris code.  The VM image is available from the Nexenta site here (scroll down to the bottom) as well as the Genunix mirror here.

Comments

[Garrett D'Amore]

What I really want is a VMWare player that I can _host_ on Solaris. I have an Ultra 20 running Solaris 10 as my primary desktop, and I'm not too keen on switching to Linux or Windows. But VMWare would really, really make my life simpler by making it easier for me as I work on both Solaris and NetBSD kernel development.

So, any hope for a port of VMWare Server (or even VMWare Player?) to Solaris x86?

[Ger Strikwerda]

No need to run VMWare on (Open)solaris. You can use qemu as an emulator. I am running FreeBSD and OpenBSD as guest OS on a OpenSolaris laptop.

check the qemu project:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/host/

[Windows Web Hosting]

VMware is the way to go Virtual.