"Necessity is the mother of technological innovation" -- a much cited axiom -- is demonstrated once again as Jignesh K. Shah writes about his creation of an OVF image less than 270MB in size that users can employ to work with the OpenSolaris kernel in VirtualBox 2.2. In fact, he writes in his blog, it can be used to install the rest of the OpenSolaris Desktop to get to the default full blown installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11.

In other words, no longer a need to waste space on GNOME or other desktop utilities when all the OpenSolaris you require is just enough to perform a simple operation with a solution like Database Server, Drupal, or Java Application Server.

Shah points out where to download the OpenSolaris APP OVF image and then explains how to import the image into a new VirtualBox VM, which leaves you ready to boot into OpenSolaris kernel.

The author also includes the steps users might employ to create a customized version of the OVF image for themselves. The entire process takes a mere 12 or so minutes, he writes, and notes that users can create their own versions of the download for Drupal, Ruby, even GlassFish.

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