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This is a wiki page designed to facilitate the downlaoding and installation of Sun's Solaris Operating Systems operating on Intel chips running Mac OS X using the Parallels application. (Parallels also runs on Windows and Linux, but this page does not discuss this yet.)Parallels is a virtualization system capable of hardware emulation that enables a computer running Mac OS X to have a virtual machine running another intel based application such as Solaris.
Requirements
Solaris in Parallels on Mac requires
an Intel Mac,Minimum 512MB RAM (2GB recommended)6GB free disk space (12GB recommended)High Speed Internet (to download the 1.6GB data file in a reasonable time)
A general understanding of Unix
Instructions
1) Download and install Parallels Desktop for Mac. (the following has been tested on Build 1848. Previous beta versions may not work.) Either get a trial key or purchase the product,currently yourbeing choice.2)updated. ClickWatch here to download the Solaris files to your favorite place. (This may take an hour on a high speed line.)
3) The file will download and automatically decompress into a folder named Solaris10u1. Open that direcrory and click on the file with the Parallels logo, Solaris10.pvs. This is the definition of the virtual machine. In a few seconds, Parallels Desktop window will appear.
4) Click Green "Power On ..." button. This button is not obvious, it is on the right side of the window (along with the other machine controls).
5) What should appear is a JDS (Gnome) session that has an open xterm session. This is a root session and a root user. (There have been reports that the machine hangs in this state. You may have to either reboot the machine or even force quit Parallels. If you quit parallels, go back to step 3. In this case, you will be presented with a login screen and you must login as "root" and the password is "l1admin".)
6) You have the option of registering for Sun Updates.
7) In the terminal window, change the root password using the "passwd" command. (The terminal is at Launch -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.)
8) One of the first things you may want to do is add a user with the commands
> mkdir /export/home
> useradd -d /export/home/username -m username
> passwd username
9) Log out and then log in as username.
10) (There are more things to add to this list but they haven't been added yet :^)
Notes
The networking is accomplished as a bridged interface between the virtual machine and the default interface on the Mac. Networking should just work. There have been reports of people having to uninstall old versions of Parallels and reinstall to get networking to work.
Issues
A current list of issues are here. If these are incorrect or incomplete, please change the page (this is a wiki)...
todo list
Solicit other people to contribute their time to this page and the project.
Moving data between machines (NFS? FTP?)
Similar disk for Nevada with the ability to track the SNV gate.Better network driverdetails.
Contact
James Hughes and Bruce Curtis areis currently moderating this page. This page is a wiki and if you feel inclined to help, please drop a note to either of us and we will add you as an editor of this page.
