The key to reboot is ESC + 8 on this screen.ĭo remember to remove the ISO image from the virtual machine or else the installation would start again. Once the installation is complete we need to reboot the OS. Now the installation would start which will not take more than 15 minutes. Select a no proxy network configuration as we are not going to use any proxy settings to connect to the internet.Ĭheck the final installation summary and verify them to start the installation of Oracle Solaris 11. The enrollment for support is not required for this LAB setup so just go to next screens. here you can also create any additional users if you want. On the next screen set the root password. For me its india so I would choose Asia/India.Ĭonfirm the time settings and go to the next screen. Now set the time zone according to your location. Select “None” For the Alternate Name Service option. We do not need to use any DNS name service for this installation so select “Do not configure DNS”. Provide the IP address and netmask for the interface net0.
But for this LAB let us use the manual configuration itself. As shown you can configure network automatically using the DHCP as well. On the next screen give the hostname for the virtual machine (geeklab) and select manual configuration of the network configuration. We would go with the default layout and use the entire disk. You can change the layout of the disk on the next screen. Select this hard drive and press ESC + 2. The installer would discover the only hard disk we allocated for this installation. We will be installing solaris 11 on the local disk so select Local Disk as a discovery selection. On this screen and all other screen we need to use ESC + 2 to go to the next screen. Now appears the Welcome screen of solaris 11.
Select the option 1 to install the Oracle solaris 11. On the next screen select the default language as English and press enter. Select the default US-English keyboard layout and press enter. Select the ISO of solaris 11 and click start to start the installation.
You may be using a ethernet card in host machine, so select it appropriately.įor the first time boot of the virtual machine, we need to boot it from the solaris 11 text install ISO image. I use Wi-Fi network in the host machine so I selected the Wi-Fi port. To be able to connect the Virtual machine from the host machine, select the bridged Adapter as the adapter 1 type and select the appropriate network hardware to be used from the host machine. We also do not need the USB ports, So disable the USB controller too.
We do not need audio device for the virtual machine, so disable it. There are few more settings to be done, so click on settings. We are almost done with all the settings. I will be setting the size of hard disk as 10 GB. You can also choose the location to store the hard disk file. Name the HDD file we are going to create. I usually prefer fixed size hard drive as it is faster than the other dynamically allocated hard drive. In case of a dynamically allocated hard drive file, space is filled only when some data is written to it. I will be using the VM in virtualbox itself, so I am going to go with VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) Now in case you want the virtual machine to be used in other virtualization softwares like VMware workstation etc., then select appropriate hard drive file type. We will be creating a new hard drive for the solaris 11 virtual machine. Set the Memory of the virtual machine to atleast 1.5 GB for a optimum performance. We need to name the new virtual machine and set the type/version as Solaris/Oracle Solaris 11 (64bit)
Open the virtualbox software and click on new. Let us setup a virtualbox virtual machine with solaris 11.