[Vm-dev] [Pharo-dev] Solaris VM ?

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 30.05.2014 um 05:11 schrieb Ian Piumarta <piumarta at speakeasy.net>:

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> On May 29, 2014, at 13:59 , Nicolas Cellier wrote:
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>> 2014-05-29 2:52 GMT+02:00 aglynn42 <aglynn42 at gmail.com>:
>> If you are not familiar with Solaris or UNIX you should be aware that UNIX in Squeak’s view is (most probably only) Linux.
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What I meant was: The pre-configured „UNIX-"VMs for either CogVM or PharoVM are just Linux (and because Linux is just a kernel
these don’t necessarily work for all Linux distributions), not real UNICES.

To my knowledge this is also true for VMMaker (at least for the Pharo variant). There are some relicts from FreeBSD but that’s only loosely coupled
and not working without additional coding (again Pharo variant). I haven’t seen any other classes supporting Solaris or any BSD variants despite FreeBSD.
I created a Solaris specific support class (in a git clone of PharoVM) but it’s hard to make use of it without further refactoring: there is an inheritance chain of
configuration classes and no easy way to inject a new class. At least I didn’t see an easy way...

Regards,
Andreas