Hi,

I installed Solaris 9 inside VMWare Workstation 6.5, and I have everything working except audio and ethernet. I'm using the CDE. Whenever I type ifconfig -a no ethernet adapters show up, just lo0. I tried typing ifconfig hme0 up, just for the heck of it, but it said there was no such interface. A lot of the Linux commands (dhcpcd, pump, modprobe, etc.) I'm used to don't work in Solaris. My NIC is a Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet, and I've tried using NAT and bridging the connection, to no avail. I also typed dmesg, but nothing stood out to me in the output. I'd love to paste the output from that command here, but shared folders don't seem to be working in the guest, even though I installed VMWare tools.

Thanks for any help,

America's Sweetheart

 

 

Odd. Should be no problem on workstation.

Try this:
# ifconfig -a plumb
# ifconfig -a

Do any interfaces besides lo0 appear? Are you sure the VM has a NIC assigned?

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Darren

 

 

Hi. I just typed ifconfig -a plumb and nothing happened. I then typed ifconfig -a and only the lo0 interface appeared. I can access the Internet in my SUSE virtual machine, but no luck in Solaris. It asked me for a hostname, so I just put in "user." I didn't configure DNS during the set up, either. It has a network adapter set to NAT. "Connect at power on" is checked.

 

 

Also, it asked me if I wanted to install "Java Enterprise System" and I said no. Would that have anything to do with it?

 

 

Nope, not at all. Did you select a "solaris 9" type for the VM instance? I think there are different NICs that can be emulated, and it has to be one supported by Solaris 9.

I think the details will be in the .vmx file, but I'm not completely certain where it would be in there.

--
Darren

 

 

ok. Thanks for helping me with this. Here's the VMX file:

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "256"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Solaris 9 (experimental).vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
displayName = "Solaris 9 (experimental)"
guestOS = "solaris9"
nvram = "Solaris 9 (experimental).nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
 
extendedConfigFile = "Solaris 9 (experimental).vmxf"
 
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
 
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d 39 e6 62 fe 67 81-9d 6a fc 53 5c ee 36 ea"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 39 e6 62 fe 67 81-9d 6a fc 53 5c ee 36 ea"
ide0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "33"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ee:36:ea"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "1559115498"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
 
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Virtual Machines\Solaris 9 (experimental)"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "Solaris 9 (experimental)"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"