Desktop Wallpaper for Openindiana

Installing Virtual Box 4.2.8 on OiOS (Openindiana)

Virtual Box is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 visualisation product for enterprise supported by OiOS.Installation by terminal script seems to achieved installation successfully.

Example script used is as follows.

Virtual box 4.2.6

su
password

cd /var/tmp
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.6/VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-SunOS.tar.gz
tar xf VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-SunOS.tar.gz
pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.2.6-SunOS-r82870.pkg

Virtual box 4.2.8

Su
password

cd /var/tmp
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/VirtualBox-4.2.8-83876-SunOS.tar.gz
tar xf VirtualBox-4.2.8-83876-SunOS.tar.gz
pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.2.8-SunOS-r83876.pkg



N.B. These scripts are not guaranteed in anyway and the version codes must be updated with each release.

Android tethering to Openindiana laptops

One major problem with using Opensolaris was the lack of drivers for mobile 3G modems. However with the development of tethering on Android (Froyo 2.2 and above) Openindiana can now been used very easely with laptops on the 3G/4G networks.

In Android go to settings,wireless networks,check the boxes marked tethering and mobile networks.This will create a mobile hotspot from your Android Phone.

In OI go to the network section at the top right of the screen and manually select the HTC network in this case.You may have to wait a few seconds for it to configure. A notification will show at the top of your screen to show you are connected to the 3 G network via your Android phone.

Opensolaris an Open Source Enterprise System producted by Sun Microsystems

Links

Recommended other sites


Web - Openindiana.org
RICChat - #openindiana on irc.freenode.net

New Media

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/openindiana
Flickr- http://www.flickr.com/photos/openindiana/

General Solaris Forums

Europe and North America

http://www.opensolarisforum.org/
http://www.unix.com/solaris/
http://forums.servethehome.com/forum.php
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/msearch?query=openindiana&submit=Search&charset=windows-1252

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.solaris.x86
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=303


Brazil
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opensolaris-br

Japan
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tokyoopensolarisstudygroup


Kernel development (this NOT an OS Distro)

http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/About+illumos#Aboutillumos-Aboutillumos

Education

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/index.html
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/projects/
http://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/
http://www2.ocean.washington.edu/unix.tutorial.html