Installing OpenSolaris in a VirtualBox

Sang Shin, sang.shin@sun.com, Sun Microsystems, www.opensolarispassion.com/opensolaris

In this lab, you are going to install OpenSolaris as a guest operating system using VirtualBox.

Expected duration: 90 minutes (excluding homework)

Software Needed

Before you begin, you need to install the following software on your computer.

VirtualBox (download)
OpenSolaris (download)
9901_opensolarisvirtual.zip (download)

The zip file contains this document and the lab contents
Download it and unzip in a directory of your choice

Change Log

May 16th, 2008: Created

Lab Exercises

Exercise 1: Install VirtualBox of your host operating system (20 minutes)
Exercise 2: Install OpenSolaris as a virtual machine (20 minutes)
Homework Exercise (for people who are taking Sang Shin's "Java EE Programming online course")

Exercise 1: Install VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.