Solaris

Brian Leonard wrote a good guide how to setup a Local Repository Mirror.

If you are in a hurry, it's good to know that you don't need to copy the entire repository of about 8GB to a local disk. You can use the repository image directly. Here is how you can do that.

If you installed your system using the text installer, the system will only be installed with a text interface. Here is how to upgrade to a graphical system.

Last week one of my servers ran out of RAM and Swap. Shame on me for not monitoring that, but it's now.

As the server is running several zones, my first question was: Which zone is eating up my RAM? So, here are the commands I used.

This small demo shows the basic ZFS operations.
You will need a Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris host and 1,2GB of disk space.

To mount a shared folder in a OpenSolaris guest in VirtualBox, you have to install the Guest Additions and then mount the file system type vboxfs. The Usage is:

mount -F vboxfs <share> <mountpoint>

If you want to share the filesystem /share from the host to the guest, then first create the share. Go to “Shared Folders” in the Virtual Machine's Settings and click the little folder with the green plus on the right.