Installing Solaris 10 under VMware Fusion on an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac
I have been fighting for quite some time to get Solaris 10 installed and working properly under VMwae Fusion 1.1 on an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac. I think this is an interaction problem between VMware Fusion and Solaris 10. Even if you tell VMware Fusion that you want to install Solaris in 32-bit mode, VMware doesn’t disable the 64-bit, long-word instruction support (available from the host). Thus, Solaris 10 is able to detect that 64-bit, long-word instructions are available and boots a 64-bit kernel. VMware then complains about the fact that the virtual machine was configured in 32-bit mode but the guest is trying to execute 64-bit instructions.
The work-around is pretty easy: it consists of disabling 64-bit, long-word instructions in the VMware configuration file for the guest. This is described in greater detail in article Installing Solaris 10 as a 32-Bit Guest Operating System on a 64-Bit Host Machine but consists mainly in editing the .vmx virtual machine’s configuration file and adding the following line:
monitor_control.disable_longmode = 1
Rebooting the installation, or booting an already installed virtual machine system should make Solaris boot into 32-bit mode.
Right what I was looking for! Many Thanks!
V. A. said this on November 27th, 2007 at 12:09
Have you installed Solaris Express dev ed dual with XP?
Ramesh said this on February 4th, 2008 at 16:23
What do you mean? Under VMware running in Windows as a host?
Felipe Alfaro Solana said this on February 5th, 2008 at 04:43
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People Over Process » links for 2008-02-06 said this on February 6th, 2008 at 12:49
thanks for the much needed info!! worked like a charm
scott said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 07:27
Thank you very much!! from ARGENTINA
Juan Cruz said this on April 8th, 2008 at 17:19