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Hi, there,

Don’t know if someone has the experience to install Solaris Express into a VMWare virtual machine? My configuration looks like this:

Hardware

- AMD Athlon™ 62 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20GHz

- 1GB memory

- 250GB HDD

Software

- Windows XP Media Center Edition (Reported as “Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 2” by VMWare.)

- VMWare 1.0.1 build-29996

- Solaris Express (File name sol-nv-b52-x86-dvd.iso, mounted to VMWare console)

Problem

- After all the configuration, went into “The system is being initialized, please wait…” and hung there.

What should I do now? I just want to try this Solaris build so don’t want to create new partition for it on my HDD.

FYI, Ubuntu Linux runs well in this mode. So may I think this is a problem/feature of Solaris installer/kernel?

Thanks.

Calvin

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Re: Install Solaris Express as a VMWare virtual machine?

Yu-Hui Liu wrote: Problem - After all the configuration, went into âThe system is being initialized, please waitââ and hung there. I have the same problem but on my physical machine with the 55b of SXCR. It locks up hard where the mouse won't even move anymore. I have another machine with VMware on it and it had no problems installing from the same DVD so not a media issue. So this seems like a hardware issue for the install and not VMware. Any hints on how I can collect more meaningful data? BTW, the machine that the install fails on for me is a HP Pavilion a642n. Bill rushmores.net

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