I would like to know what is the minimum hardware requirement for
installing solaris 10? I heard that it is supported only on Ultrasparc
4 processor based system? any help?

Thanks

salaku wrote:
> I would like to know what is the minimum hardware requirement for
> installing solaris 10? I heard that it is supported only on Ultrasparc
> 4 processor based system? any help?
> 
> Thanks

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/supported_platforms.html

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salem160@hotmail.com (salaku) writes:
>I would like to know what is the minimum hardware requirement for
>installing solaris 10? I heard that it is supported only on Ultrasparc
>4 processor based system? any help?

Any Ultra Sparc system over 200MHz. Ie. basiclly the Ultra 5 will be
the minimum. This should be dropping off support of sun4m and Ultra 1
and the very earliest Ultra 2 systems.  


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Ade wrote:
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/views/desktop_server_system.html
does not list VMware... is that now officially supported or not ?

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salem160@hotmail.com (salaku) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|I would like to know what is the minimum hardware requirement for
|installing solaris 10? I heard that it is supported only on Ultrasparc
|4 processor based system? any help?

The SPARC version will run on machines with UltraSPARC II, III, and IV
series CPUs (and various Fujitsu models as well, though I don't know the
details off the top of my head).  The only UltraSPARC's that Solaris 9
runs on that Solaris 10 dropped support for are the UltraSPARC I cpu's.

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Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes:

> Ade wrote:
> > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/
> 
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/views/desktop_server_system.html
> does not list VMware... is that now officially supported or not ?

VMware doesn't list it as a supported OS, but I
successfully installed S10_b51 under the latest VMware,
running under Red Hat 9 Linux.

It wouldn't boot with the virtual machine's CD assigned to
one of the system CD drives, so I had to assign the CD to
the software 1 of 2 CD iso image.

I didn't get video working though.

tim

tbutler@dev.null writes:

> VMware doesn't list it as a supported OS, but I
> successfully installed S10_b51 under the latest VMware,
> running under Red Hat 9 Linux.
....
> I didn't get video working though.

Did you install the xfree86 4.4.0 video porting kit drivers
<URL:http://www.tools.de/solaris/>?

It includes the vmware video driver.

tbutler@dev.null wrote:
> > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/
> >
> > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/views/desktop_server_system.html
> > does not list VMware... is that now officially supported or not ?
> 
> VMware doesn't list it as a supported OS, but I
> successfully installed S10_b51 under the latest VMware,
> running under Red Hat 9 Linux.
> 
> It wouldn't boot with the virtual machine's CD assigned to
> one of the system CD drives, so I had to assign the CD to
> the software 1 of 2 CD iso image.

I wish Sun would support Solaris within VMware (Solaris has "guest" OS)
and Solaris as "server" ("host" OS; this would require to port the Linux
or the FreeBSD VMware kernel module to Solaris... that option may be a
great advantage for Solaris x86 since it would have both "zones" and a
full VM).

> I didn't get video working though.

Read
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=4070F8C6.446B6646%40nrubsig.org

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Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|I wish Sun would support Solaris within VMware (Solaris has "guest" OS)
|and Solaris as "server" ("host" OS; this would require to port the Linux
|or the FreeBSD VMware kernel module to Solaris... that option may be a
|great advantage for Solaris x86 since it would have both "zones" and a
|full VM).

Then you should go fill out the form at:
   http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/inquiry.jsp
so the people in Sun who work with ISV's know what you want (and how
many people want it - I'm sure they know some people want VMware, but
the people more that ask, the higher priority they're likely to give it).

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Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes:

> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |I wish Sun would support Solaris within VMware (Solaris has "guest" OS)

> Then you should go fill out the form at:
>    http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/inquiry.jsp

All wishes for Solaris support in VMware (as guest or host) should 
be directed at EMC of course. I'm sure Sun would cooperate, but it's
EMC that has to have the initiative, which of course are driven by
market requirements, which lead in nicely to Alan's point.

tim