Inchoate Curmudgeon

This is a collection of notes and links related to a dual installation of Solaris Nevada and Mac OS using Boot Camp. Although all of the links are helpful, this is a rapidly evolving set of technologies, thus there are some adjustments. Possibly the most important adjustment I ran into is that the Boot Camp […]

I’ve joined the Open Solaris Mentoring Project. Next step: figure out how to reach out to students in the schools and univsersities in the Denver area. I’m thinking weekend camps with tutorials and so forth might be nice. I’m thinking a good outreach might also start with seeing if there is a Soalris user group […]

An intriguing aspect of ITIL change expected in a virtualization project is CMDB. I missed this on my recent post on ITIL and virtualization. It’s a funny slip, in the sense I’ve been pondering this subject quite a bit lately. Virtualization concepts are increasingly realized in all the classic components of infrastructure: compute, storage, and networking. […]

I was able to attend Sun’s Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) in Las Vegas last week. These are the sessions I attended:

“Turning ‘Blue Shift’ Datacenter into ‘Red Shift’ Enabler”, Eric Bezille and Michel Kintz “Project Indiana”, Glynn Foster “Virtualization: Technology, Performance and Benchmarking”, Jim Mauro and Tariq Magdon-Ismail “Intel EMT64 Quad-Core Deepdive”, Eric Markwardt “Demonstrating Ruby and Ruby on Rails […]

I have added a V60x to my lab and want to jumpstart it rather than futz with DVDs. I wanted to have a jumpstart server on my Mac laptop, in a VMware Fusion guest, for portable use. I wanted my jumpstart images on a ZFS share, both to ease the NFS configuration and to allow […]

The production release of VMware Fusion 1.0 released yesterday resolves the issues with the VMware tools install inter-operation with xorg 7.2 distributed with current versions of Nevada.  I’ve tested the tools install with Fusion 1.0 (51348) and Solaris Nevada build 69 (SunOS solaris-devx 5.11 snv_69 i86pc i386 i86pc).

fusion, nevada, solaris, xorg

The presentation on Jay’s blog just reinforces my dismay at not getting my act together to at least try to go to OSCON.

iSCSI, nevada, solaris, zfs

One of the recent Nevada builds introduces xorg 7.2 which breaks the VMware tools installation. Use these instructions to work around the issue. You may want to enable root logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (”PermitRootLogin yes”) or create another login via in case you can’t get back in through the graphical console after these steps. You […]

Yesterday in “Using ZFS and NFS with Textmate and Finder on a Fusion VM” I stated that “SAMBA would be … the only reasonable setup if you are doing something like this with a Windows machine and VMware Workstation.” This was a bit of an overstatement, since you can configure an NFS client on a […]

One of the advantages of a VMware image over a real server is that you can securely access the Solaris virtual machine filesystem, from your Mac, with NFS. You don’t even need to plead with your system administrator, that would be you! Also, when you have a server vm, you can carry it with you, […]