{"id":491,"date":"2005-10-19T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T06:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2005-10-19T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T06:43:17","slug":"solaris-10-under-qemu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/19\/solaris-10-under-qemu\/","title":{"rendered":"Solaris 10 under QEMU"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently watching a Solaris 10<\/a> install under QEMU<\/a> on my laptop. It seems to be taking a while, but getting there.<\/p>\n

(I got a Solaris 10 DVD in my AUUG<\/a> shwag)<\/p>\n

Basically, I want to play with DTrace and see how easy it is to do things with it. Solaris seems to be the requirement. I don’t want to have a partition for it nor run it as a primary OS. So, qemu it is.<\/p>\n

I can also then use the funky disk image foo with qemu so that i don’t waste a lot of space (mmm… sparse disk images).<\/p>\n

For a 7GB qemu-img created filesystem, used intirely as \/, it seems that there’s 128MB overhead for having the file system. The installer is chugging away writing things and this seems to be constant.<\/p>\n

So, all in all i should end up using a bit less than 3GB of real disk space for a full Solaris 10 install in a qemu image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m currently watching a Solaris 10 install under QEMU on my laptop. It seems to be taking a while, but getting there. (I got a Solaris 10 DVD in my AUUG shwag) Basically, I want to play with DTrace and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets","category-general","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-7V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4325,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/installing-windows-on-a-usb-key\/","url_meta":{"origin":491,"position":0},"title":"Installing Windows on a USB key","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2017-11-22","format":false,"excerpt":"For some unknown reason, the Windows installer doesn't let you install to a USB key. 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