Installation of Oracle Solaris 11 11 11/11 Appliance in VirtualBox ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements: X86 system with a minimum of 2GB RAM A minimum of 4 GB free disk space is needed for initial installation. The available space on the virtual disk can grow to a maximum of 64 GB. Version 3.1 or 4.0 of VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) Note: version 3.2 may fail due to Sun bug ID 7005377: Solaris fast reboot support. The message that may be seen is: WARNING: vboxguest has no quiesce() Instructions: ------------ 1) unzip OracleSolaris11_11-11_VM.zip Contents are: README.txt : This README OracleSolaris11_11-11.mf : sha1 checksum file OracleSolaris11_11-11.ovf : machine configuration file OracleSolaris11_11-11-disk1.vmdk : machine disk image 2) Start VirtualBox application. 3) From File Menu, select Import Appliance 4) Select the OracleSolaris11_11-11.ovf file from the directory in which the OracleSolaris11_11-11_VM.zip file was uncompressed in step 1. 5) In the Appliance Import Wizard, change Appliance Import Settings to suit your system: RAM: Systems with more RAM should increase this amount (up to half of available RAM is recommended). Virtual Disk Image: Select a directory in which the image size can expand (up to 64GB). 6) Start system image. Proceed through configurtion screens that prompt for hostname, timezone, default user and passwd, and root passwd. 7) Log in as user "oracle", password "oracle". Notes: ----- * To install additional software, start the Package Manager by clicking on the Add More Software icon on the desktop. * The system will come up with the default network settings, using the Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) and DHCP. * A message may appear which states that a newer version of Guest Additions is available. see the following link for more information on Guest Additions: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#id490876 * ntp is enabled by default. If the appliance is not able to see the NTP servers, the service can be disabled with: root# svcadm disable ntp
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