Crossbow Project Integrated in Nevada

Phase 1 of the Crossbow Project has been integrated into Nevada Build 105 and is set to be released with OpenSolaris 4.09, announced Sunay Tripathi, distinguished engineer, Solaris Core Operating System.

Crossbow is a set of technologies that provide network virtualization and greatly improves the resource control, performance, and network utilization needed to achieve true OS virtualization, utility computing, and server consolidation. It consists of multiple components: IP Instances, Virtual NICs (VNICs), and Flow Management. Crossbow is designed to add network virtualization to Solaris without introducing any performance penalty. Some of the underlying work is delivering better network performance.

See Tripathi\'s blog for background information on Crossbow and Network Virtualization.

Customize IIIM (Internet/Intranet Input Methods) in OpenSolaris

Javier Acosta shares his experience in customizing IIIM. He does mention that there are projects working on improving the user-friendliness of IIIM, but in the meantime, his example serves the purpose and is easy to do as well.

xTuple Postbooks GUI Client

xTuple Postbooks, an open source edition of xTuple's ERP and accounting software, has a GUI client for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram decided to take it upon himself to try to see if he could get the GUI to work on OpenSolaris 2008.11. He succeeded and without too much effort. He details the steps in his Sun blog.

Installing OpenSolaris on a USB Stick

Anyone interested in installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a USB stick should visit Bernd Finger\'s blog, since he already worked through the process. He shares bugs and advice to make the experience for others a smooth one.

Installing a Web Server in an OpenSolaris 2008.11 Zone

In this entry, Finger outlines in 11 steps how to approach and complete the procedure of installing a Web server in a zone within the newest release of OpenSolaris. He notes that the zone files are not immediately available as they were in previous releases, however the zone installation is quicker.

How to Remotely Connect to OpenSolaris/Solaris System

Here is another tip from a Sun blogger. This time it is Gilles Gravier, who details a few simple steps to have a remote connection to an OpenSolaris machine "with security, minimal fuss and stuff". [...read more...]

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