We have several Sun 100 Blades in our Software lab that are currently running Solaris 8. Since the lifetime of Solaris 8 is running out in November, we are moving to Solaris 10. These are SPARC stations. Here is the problem.
These systems are old and only contain a CD R/W and not a DVD R/W. You can download Solaris 10 SPARC ISO for DVD. I've searched the net on how to divide the DVD into CD's with no luck. Plus, you can no longer get Solaris 10 on CD's. We've discussed purchasing DVD drives and replacing the CD drives, but the time to get them on dock does not meet our schedule.
I've found how to load/mount an ISO file onto a Solaris OS but when I reboot (from both reboot command and init 6) the mount goes away. I've also found how to use one system to do a new install with the ISO. But, I've been given permission to experiment with one station only.
Here is the question:
Is there anyway to use the ISO mounted then upgrade the Solaris 8 to 10?
Thanks
Used an x86 Solaris VM running on RHEL and did a network install.
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There is a requirement to generate thread and heap dumps of running Java process on a Window server. We have JDK 7 on the server, but the Java process runs using java in JRE 8. Installing JDK 8 on the server takes time due to lots of paperwork required for it (company process). The team who will be doing it insists that they need JDK 8 from Azul to generate the dumps since current java process uses Zulu JRE 8. For reasons known only to them, they do not even want to try with the tools available with JDK 7 (OpenJDK?) installed on the server. Does these versions really matter?
Question: Can I use JDK tools from any version, specifically JDK 7, to generate heap and thread dumps of the java process running from a Zulu JRE 8 environment?
The answer appears to be yes.
I just tried this on my Mac and could generate a thread dump and heap dump using the Zulu 7 version of jstack and jmap on a running instance of Zulu 8. This would indicate that jstack/jmap are not troubled by the version number of the JVM (and also seem compatible).
Certainly, from a licensing perspective, there is no issue with using tools from a Zulu 7 build on other versions of Zulu (like 8).
I have created a vmware of windows 8.1 in order to develop a wp8 app.
My pc specs :
i7 2670 (2.2)
8 gb ram
win 7 64
My VMware Player spec:
60 gb hdd
4 gb ram
I have installed in the VMware Player visual studio 2012 update 4, and all the wp stuff.
When i am trying to build my project i am getting this error:
emulator Cannot assign the specified number
of processor for virtual machine is out of range
I have searched on the internet but all links i have found refereed to parallels. Nothing helpful for VMware .
I have read this article. I have enabled hyper-v, but i am not sure if VMware can support hardware virtualization, which i think is needed.
My question are 2:
Is these any possible solution to this problem?
If i got a device and try to debug on device i suppose that i will not have any problem. Am i suppose well?
I will appreciate any help.
Thx for your time.
VMWare Player v6. You need to tick Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RIV in virtual machine configuration for WP emulator running.
As per the comments on your question, I'll explain:
You can perform Windows Phone 8.x development on Windows 7 or later provided you have a physical device, however if you want to use the Windows Phone 8.x emulators then you need to have Hyper-V available, this is because the WP8 emulators run as Hyper-V virtual-machines, side-by-side with your main operating system.
Therefore, to use the WP8 emulators you must be running Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise or Windows Server 2012 (or later, e.g. Windows 8.1 Pro). The standard "Home edition" of Windows 8 does not include Hyper-V. Read up about Client Hyper-V on TechNet.
Hyper-V requires hardware virtualisation and, as an accelerated platform with hardware requirements, will not run within another virtualiser (this is in contrast to how you can run VirtualBox or VirtualPC under Hyper-V). You must be running Windows 8 Pro as your "root" operating system.
You actually also need to edit the .vmx file in VMWare Player in order for Hyper-V to be available to the Windows Phone emulator.
Give your VM >= 4GB RAM, 2+ processors, then open the .vmx file for the VM and add:
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = “FALSE”
Then save, start the VM, and install Windows.
I'll also point out that this works flawlessly on my MacBook Pro Retina running a Hyper-V capable Windows distribution inside of Parallels and Visual Studio 2013 CE.
I have a solaris sparc machine .. suppose if I build any application on solaris sparc machine then will that application will run on the X86 machine as well or I need to build again onn X86 machine ? I tried to search solution on google but didn't get it.
You need to rebuild the applications from source. The SPARC and x86 CPU instruction sets are quite different.
You need to build this application again.
General the application has the different deal with the SPARC or X86 CPU .
Solaris x86 for Intel processor
Soalris SPARC for SUN
More info
On my laptop I have installed Win 7 and VS 2012.But I need to get ready for the Microsoft exam for the "windows store apps using HTML 5, css and javascript". So my idea is to install Win 8.1 and VS 2013 trial versions for get hands on practice for above exams.So my question is can I install Win 8.1 and VS 2013 trial versions on my Laptop without removing the current Win 7 and VS 2012 (Maybe a virtual machine or something like that)?If you know how to achieve above goal please let me know.
In short my whole idea is to get practice for developing Win 8 apps for mobile. If you have other suggestions without installing the above software, please let me know also.
Windows Phone App Development requires Hyper-V & SLAT to run the emulator. That requires your host OS to be at least Windows 8 or better. On a virtual machine you will be able to develop apps, but you won't be able to run them on the emulator.
You can run Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 side by side, but then you would have to upgrade the host machine to Windows 8 Pro.
When both your laptop and your virtualization software support the required CPU features, it is also possible to run the emulator on top of Windows 7.
For more information see this link on the Nokia Developer Portal (Thanks for adding that GSerg!)
General answer (jessehouwing's answer is more accurate):
If your notebook has enough main memory, CPU power, etc. and the CPU ideally supports certain virtualization features, then you should be able to install Windows 8 inside a virtual machine.
To give you an idea how simple this could be, here's an example:
install VirtualBox
start it and set up a virtual machine with the proper CPU and OS settings
define a virtual hard disk that's large enough (this will end up being a file inside your current OS, no need to repartition your real hard disk drive)
get your Windows installation medium ready (a CD or ISO file will do)
point your VM's virtual CD drive to that installation medium
start the virtual machine and install Windows inside it
Does it make a difference? All I'll be doing (for the most part) is running different browsers. I would think the most stripped down one possible would be best.
Update: My dev box is a MacBook Pro (2010) with 8G ram, 2.4 GHz processor running Lion.
Ordinary Windows 7 installations are shipped with a full load of crap. Even the cleanest installs have a size of at least 10 GB. For that reason, I recommend to only use Windows 7 if you want to test IE9+ (which requires Vista+).
The following steps will take a maximum of ten minutes. Afterwards, you have a fully functioning Windows 7 + IE9 system, which takes only 2GB of physical space:
Getting Windows 7 Lite
I use this set-up in VirtualBox. I have not tested it in VMWare, but there should be no differences.
Get a Windows 7 Lite VM image.
I myself use an image, created by ivankehayov:
Download name: Win7.SP1.IE9.lite.v2-IK
ISO size: 700 MB (after installing: less 2GB)
MD5: 094BE542B3F292726EF7F16619CACA9A
For more information, and the tools used to create this image, see this forum. More details (about the old image) can be found here.
Creating/Installing the Virtual Machine
Create an new VM, and put the ISO image in the virtual CD slot.
2 GB RAM (Minimum of 1 GB, to ensure that your system doesn't crash).
Boot the Virtual Machine.
Install from the iso image
Decrease resource usage (4 steps)
Install CCleaner, to wipe (temporary) (log) files.
Disable System Protection:
Control Panel > System Protection > Configure... > Turn off system protection
Disable the page file (especially recommended when you've got a SSD).
Control Panel > Advanced system settings > Performance [Settings..] > Advanced > Virtual memory [Change..] > No paging file - Set. Confirm and reboot.
Disable all unnecessary services, to increase the booting speed.
Set your preferences (homepage? IE settings?), and save a snapshot of your VM. When you're done with using the VM, restore the snapshot. This will prevent Windows from hogging disk space over time, and keeps your VM image compact.
My virtual Windows 7 boots within 45 seconds.
Relevant details about my own environment:
- Virtualization software: Oracle VirtualBox
- Operating system: Linux-based
- RAM: 8 GB
- Disk: 60 GB SSD