Has anyone ran Solaris x86 on VMware with any luck? It seems to work well but I am curious if anyone has gone to production or another real world environment with the solution? If so, how did you move the application(s) off of SPARC? I assume a new install?
Charlie Gautreaux
vExpert
http://www.thickclouds.com
I can't remember if Solaris x86 is one of the Supported VMware O/Ss - I believe it is. The challenge that I've run into most with migration from Solaris/Sparc to Intel VMs is that I have certain applications that only run on Solaris/Sparc. Solaris x86 does not have any way to run Sparc binaries, so you need some other program to do the translation. I found one called QuickTrasit by a company called Transitive that does Solaris/Sparc to Linux/x86_64 or Solaris/Sparc to Solaris/x86_64 translation. (They're also the ones who did Apple's Rosetta software for PPC to Intel.)
