In our previous article we went through the process of preparing a Solaris 11 for SPARC machine as a Logical Domain hypervisor. Now that we have laid out our foundation we are ready to create some Logical Domains. Solaris Virtualization: Using Logical Domains on Solaris 11 Part One Create the…
Solaris Virtualization: Using Logical Domains on Solaris 11 Part One
Solaris 11 for SPARC, as well as previous versions of Solaris, include a neat little technology called Logical Domains (which has been rebranded as Oracle VM for SPARC). Logical Domains are implemented in the SPARC processor. This series is going to focus on the basic administration of a Logical Domains…
Bash: Automatically Mount File Systems on Volume Group if Present
Update 09/16/2015 – I have published an updated article for this here: http://blog.allanglesit.com/2012/08/bash-automatically-mount-file-systems-on-volume-group-if-present/ In my laptop I have a solid state disk, and frankly I am way past addicted to solid state disks, but what you get in performance you lose in capacity. As such I have had to be creative…
Solaris 11 on SPARC: What the Piss is the OK Prompt
I have finally got my hands on some SPARC gear, and I am making use of it by documenting the crap out of it. So after I got the ILOM situation sorted out I noticed that the OS itself wasn’t starting up, and I was just ending up at a…
Solaris 11: Permit Root Logins Locally and via SSH
In Solaris 11, a secondary user is created as part of the installation process, the text installation allows you to bypass this, but even if you do you will be unable to login as root to perform any configurations, even though you set the password as part of the setup. …