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 at 06:47AM Nov 23, 2008 by dcaoyuan in NetBeans | Comments[4]
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.
Posted by n8 on November 24, 2008 at 04:10 AM PST #
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.
Posted by Caoyuan on November 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM PST #
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!
Posted by stef on November 24, 2008 at 10:49 PM PST #
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.
Posted by Caoyuan on November 25, 2008 at 12:21 AM PST #