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OpenSolaris Install Fest Eriq Muhammad Adams J. Sun Campus Ambassador Indonesia eriq.adams@yahoo.com
Agenda * Installation Details * Installation Demo * OpenSolaris Overview * Next Steps Slide 1: title and presenter's name Slide 2: topic intro - what product/technology is Slide 3: topic intro - who is the target market (be very as specific as possible: e.g. geo, developer type, etc.) Slide 4: demo Slide 5: certification Slide 6: call-to-action Slide 7: resources: (URLs, where to go/who to call for more information, etc.)
Installation Details
Installation Details Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 on VirtualBox Primary installation will be as a guest of VirtualBox VirtualBox is Sun's latest virtualization software Allows you to try OpenSolaris without disrupting your machine
Installation Details VirtualBox Overview VirtualBox virtualization software can be describe by two main pieces, a host and guests A VirtualBox host is VirtualBox running as a hypervisor on your machine Only one VirtualBox host can be running for a particular VirtualBox version on a machine A VirtualBox guest is an operating system environment running under the VirtualBox host VirtualBox guests can be stored as VirtualBox images and distributed
Installation Details VirtualBox Overview (Continued) Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX VirtualBox (Host) Guest
Installation Details VirtualBox Overview (Continued) The “SFD Kits” CD contains a VirtualBox software You will NOT get the Compiz Fusion 3D desktop features because VirtualBox can't virtualize the OpenGL interface to the video driver
Installation Details System Requirements - VirtualBox VirtualBox “Host”ing is supported on the following operating systems Solaris OpenSolaris Linux Mac OS X Windows XP, Vista You will need at least 1 GB of memory You will need at least 15 GB of free disk space
Installation Demo
Installation Demo VirtualBox First we'll install VirtualBox Follow along with me using the install script at http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/43196001/virtualbox_opensolaris_installscript.odt Those installing Dual Boot You can start going through the install script at http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/43196001/dualboot_opensolaris_installscript.odt Also you can find on “SFD Kit” CD.
OpenSolaris Overview
OpenSolaris Overview What is OpenSolaris? New operating system distribution based on Solaris source code First release 2008.05 Open source Redistributable Supported
OpenSolaris Overview Nice Look!
OpenSolaris Overview Interesting Technologies - ZFS ZFS - Zettabyte file system First 128-bit file system Almost unlimited storage size Instantaneous snapshots Easy rollback End-to-end integrity Pools instead of volumes No restrictions on partition size
OpenSolaris Overview Interesting Technologies - SMF SMF – Service Management Facility Replaces RC scripts Handles dependencies between services Fault management
OpenSolaris Overview Interesting Technologies - IPS IPS – Image Packaging System Modern repository-based package delivery Package Manager – GUI front-end for IPS
OpenSolaris Overview Interesting Technologies - Zones Zones & Containers Low overhead virtualization Example: run many Apache servers on one box
OpenSolaris Overview Interesting Technologies - CIFS CIFS – Common Internet File System Supported in the kernel Provides file sharing with Windows Based on Samba (smbfs) True Windows SIDs (security identifiers) – not just posix UIDs NT-style ACLs (Access Control Lists)
OpenSolaris Overview Interesting Technologies - DTrace DTrace – Dynamic Tracing tool Dynamic troubleshooting and analysis Provides insight to the entire software stack including the operating system Useful for Troubleshooting software bugs Detailed application insight Capturing profiling data for performance analysis
Next Steps
Next Steps Ubuntu Linux General Cheat Sheet
Next Steps Ubuntu Linux Package Management Cheat Sheet Complete comparison at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/apt_ips/
Get Involved Next Steps Join the OpenSolaris Community! http://groups.google.com/group/osug-indonesia Join Sun Campus Club UB http://groups.google.com/group/scc-ub Get Involved
OpenSolaris Install Fest THANK YOU Eriq Muhammad Adams J. Sun Campus Ambassador Indonesia eriq.adams@yahoo.com