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Can't install Solaris 10 on Parallels

Apr 5, 2007, 03:42 PM
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xonybubba
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Can't install Solaris 10 on Parallels
I want to use Solaris 10 to develop applications, but I want to keep Windows. I thought about using Parallels. I bought and installed it, and I downloaded all of the 5 Solaris 10 for x64 iso's. I am trying to install it on Parallels, with the guest OS selected as Solaris 10 (of course), and I am setting it to boot from the first disc ISO. I get these following screens- the Parallels start screen (screenshot at http://www.freewebs.com/fourt/0.jpg ), followed by the Solaris boot screen (screenshot at http://www.freewebs.com/fourt/1.jpg ). Then I select Solaris, and get the following screens- (screenshot at http://www.freewebs.com/fourt/2.jpg ). Then, the underscore at the end is replaced by the text "Detecting Devices", and then a whole bunch of text pops up on the screen which goes down to the bottom, and this is the ending screen (screenshot at http://www.freewebs.com/fourt/3.jpg ). After that, from the Solaris 10 installation instructions, it says I should get another option screen, but it just returns to the Parallels start screen that we got in the beginning. The whole set of screens then starts again. I have selected the other Solaris boot options, but with the same result. I am using the x64/x86 CD's, and I have tried the SPARC CD's without it even recognizing it as a boot CD.
As an ending note, I know in the screenshots it looks like I have Windows Vista, but I am running Windows XP SP2 with some design changes to make it look like Vista.

Thank you in advance for your assistance, and if there is any other information I can give you, I would be happy to oblige.
Apr 5, 2007, 06:38 PM
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Hugh Watkins
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I am very interested in this too but need total hand holding as a 100% newbie with Solaris

The sun.com site seems only to have fragmented images to download
which are supposed to self assembe and be burned on to a dvd to install

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp


Download Requirements

* 2.5 GB of free disk space required;
5 GB recommended
* High-speed Internet connection
* DVD (recommended) or CD burner
* 1 DVD+R or DVD-R disk or 5 CD-R disks


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Apr 5, 2007, 09:40 PM
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xonybubba
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To correct Hugh W., they also have 5 CD iso's that are separate from each other.
Apr 9, 2007, 12:48 PM
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drjunky
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I have had a similar issue. Are you using Solaris 10 11/06 (latest release as of this post)? Here is what I have tried so far:

1) Boot Parallels on my x64 machine with said release, same result
2) Create Solaris VM on my laptop (NOT x64) and it works, clone the VM to my x64 machine, same result, on boot it spews dump information

I have yet to try an older Solaris 10 release though. I happen to have a copy of Solaris 10 06/06. Will keep you updated.

As a passing thought, I wonder if it has something with x64 and Parallels interacting with it and how it talks back to the Solaris kernel.
Apr 9, 2007, 01:04 PM
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dglock2
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The latest version of parallels does not support 64 bit systems.

don
Apr 9, 2007, 01:35 PM
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schotty
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I have installed the x86 32bit without any issues a few times. Both Mac and Linux hosts. I used the dvd iso, and installed via loopback.
 


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