Second Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 10 branded container in Solaris 11

So I’ve been tracking the Solaris 11 Express Support repo updates for a while. I had issue today where I couldn’t make a network connection to my virtual box guests. They would ping but no ssh and no http connection. The later being important as my VB guest is running a local mirror repo. while I could connect to the guest from other machines on the network I could connect to them from the the machine hosting the guests. ...

Okay , not entirely sure why yet but I though I’d like to get VNC server configured on my Solaris machines, perhaps it’s with the arrival of the AppleTV 2 in the house freeing up the trusty mac mini workhorse to go back to desktop duties after the last 3+ year as a Plex app media player, anyway on to the task at hand.

One of the most useful one liners thought I’d put it up here for my own easy access

So I have a couple of machine’s I’m reinstalling on a regular basis as part of some on going work. Unfortunately PXE booting is not an option for them so it been a process of attaching a virtual CDROM image and then typing in a bunch of kickstart parameters at the boot menu. Well had enough, time to be a better way. I’m aware of the “remote control” for anaconda so it was time to make it work for me.

View Bootcamp Session 22 in a larger map Total Distance: 8.15 km (5.1 mi) Total Time: 1:24:24 Moving Time: 55:52 Average Speed: 5.80 km/h (3.6 mi/h) Average Moving Speed: 8.75 km/h (5.4 mi/h) Max Speed: 68.74 km/h (42.7 mi/h) Min Elevation: 24 m (79 ft) Max Elevation: 88 m (289 ft) Elevation Gain: 99 m (323 ft) Max Grade: 2 % Min Grade: -6 % Recorded: Sat Dec 04 07:12:12 AEDT 2010 ...

How to upgrade your Opensolaris dev build 134 to Solaris 11 Express build 151a

While the holiday has been over for almost a week already for me after 6 long days at LISA 10 Conference, today we head home.

Jim Mauro’s Dtrace tut

RMC ESX Performance and Tuning