[geeks] Building on OpenSolaris vs Solaris 10

[velociraptor]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM, velociraptor<velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:03 PM, velociraptor<velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tossing a couple of oddball q's out there.  Hoping some of you might
>> have some pointers...
>>
>> I'm running Solaris 10 on my NAS at home, which presents some issues
>> as to software.  For the most part, blastwave packages are fine for my
>> purposes, but I'm having some trouble with a couple of things, and
>> would like to "roll my own" (vlc, mplayer & friends, bittorrent
>> client).
>>
>> So, anyone have any info and/or pointers on using spec files from
>> OpenSolaris in a build environment on Solaris 10?  Alternatively, is
>> it possible to run OpenSolaris in a container (branded, maybe?).
>
> Following up my own post...
>
> I found this thread on the pkg-discuss list:
>
>
http://markmail.org/message/3yzv2wos3shlc4r7#query:+page:1+mid:3yzv2wos3shlc4
r7+state:results
>
> Which implies that it is at least possible to build some ips packages
> on Solaris 10.  I'll definitely be taking a snapshot before I start
> mucking with this.
>
> Further reading also indicates that Solaris 10 will run in an
> OpenSolaris zone (it was not stated if it was a branded zone or not,
> though).  Going to have to google some more for that part.
>
>  I'd consider running a VBox OpenSolaris instance, but I'm having
> issues with the network in VBox.  I'll be installing an Intel network
> card tonight, as I'm hoping it's just the drivers for the RealTek
> 8111C.  High network load through VBox has forced me to power cycle
> the Solaris host several times--it makes the NIC fall over dead, and
> locks up the gui as well.  Switching to bridged from a NAT
> configuration made it worse--with NAT the VM would just crash.

I should spend more time googling. :-S  Apparently the "hard lock"
problem is a bug in the last two versions of VBox affecting the
VT-x/AMD-V code.  I'll be rolling back to 2.2.4 tonight.

=Nadine=