Tag: Solaris

Fixing VMware guestOS setting after the fact

I set up an OpenIndiana vm in VMware Fusion (see earlier post) but while setting it up, I accidentally selected "Other" for the guest OS type instead of "Solaris". As a result, later on when I wanted to install VMware Tools, it...

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Fix missing math.h in OpenIndiana

Was trying to build Python on OpenIndiana b151A (for the purpose of testing out a DTrace patch; see earlier post) and got: math.h: No such file or directory The fix: sudo pkg install header-math Thanks, swinful!...

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Setting up OpenIndiana b151A

I'm in the process of installing OpenIndiana b151A in a VMware Fusion virtual machine. Main reason is that I've become interested in DTrace and DTrace comes from the world of Solaris. OS X has DTrace too, but I'm noticing that it...