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

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Hi tty,

I am waiting eagerly for your results. My PharoVM for OpenIndiana is not yet working perfectly.
I have some minor problems with sound (just the first tone and then silence) and X11 copy and paste (not working).
For me it’s also just a nice little experiment as I try to keep OpenIndiana on my Sun Ultra 24 as a Workstation OS
after Oracle more or less abandoned Solaris for Workstation use.

Regards,
Andreas

Am 30.05.2014 um 20:49 schrieb gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com>:

> Hi Andreas.
> 
> 
> 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... 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> I have a tri-boot system--SlackwareLinux 64, Slackware Linux 64 with 32 bit compatibility libs, and OpenIndiana (an OpenSunOS variant).
> 
> Its a chicken-egg problem where I lay the egg on Linux and see if it will hatch on OpenIndiana. I.e. I generate the CMake config on linux and run on SunOS.
> 
> I can hand-edit the SunOS config until I get it correct and then modify the CMakeVMMaker SunOSConfig to generate the correct CMake files.
> 
> Like you say, SunOS is NOT linux and it is very unfamiliar in a lot of respects.
> 
> Still, it will be cool to have it running sometime--just for the cool factor.
> 
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> 
> Cheers.
> 
> tty
> 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> Andreas 
> 
> 

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