NetBeans on OpenSolaris 08.11 in VirtualBox in Mac OS

My Macbook is ân old one with Mac OS X 10.4, I have no way to get Java 6. I´ve tracked OpenSolaris? for a long time, with OpenSolaris? 08.11 is going to be released, I think I should have a try to see if I can do my daily work on OpenSolaris? rather than Mac OS on my MacBook?.

I then installed VirtualBox? on my MacOS, then a guest OpenSolaris? with 1024M memory and 16G disk. I downloaded and installed Java JDK 6 and NetBeans 6.5, plus my Scala plugins.

It rocks seamlessly. The only problem is, should I re-format my harddisk and install OpenSolaris? instead of Mac OS now?

There are a lot of guesses on Sun´s future these days, but, with all those innovations from Sun or taken by Sun, Why cloud-computing? Should still be sunshine-computing.

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  • Posted: 2008-11-22 08:00 (Updated: 2010-01-05 10:32)
  • Author: dcaoyuan
  • Categories: NetBeans

Comments

1. n8 -- 2008-11-23 08:00

Your 32-bit MacBook? can run Java 6 with SoyLatte?, but running Java-friendly OS in virtualbox as you're doing is probably a nicer experience, especially for Netbeans.

2. Caoyuan -- 2008-11-24 08:00

Hi n8,

Yes, java-friendly OS such as OpenSolaris?, even in virtualbox as a guest one, performs very good with Java 6u10. AIOTrade is a cpu/charting heavy java application, still runs very smoothly on this virtual os.

3. stef -- 2008-11-24 08:00

Are you actually thinking about installing OpenSolaris? as your main OS? Does it run natively on a MacBook? or is there a lot of 'hacking' needed?

I think I pretty much got the same setup and therefore problem getting Java 6 as you do!

4. Caoyuan -- 2008-11-24 08:00

stef,

For daily job, I'm looking for a native OpenSolaris?. So, I'm thinking to install a native OpenSolaris? on my macbook.

OpenSolaris? can be installed natively on MacBook? without hacking, you can also set dual-boot MacOS and Opensolaris on it too. Google "macbook opensolaris"

I'm going to feel on the guest opensolaris first, maybe for several weeks, then, make the decision.