Download solaris 11.3 iso for vmware

Traditionally VMware Tools was tied to a release of ESXi but that has changed where they are released on a regular cadence. There are various ways you can deploy and manage Tools on a vSphere installation but it is a manual process in Workstation. In this post I will detail how to keep Tools up to date in a Workstation installation. This post was written using Workstation v First we need to download the latest VMware Tools. We need to download the file VMware-tools-windows In that folder there are several iso files:.

Now root is no more a user instead it is a role as per the default installation. While installing the main user that is specified is automatically given the role of the root. Whichever admin user was specified will have the root role by default.

However, Solaris still provides an option to change the default behavior and the role can be converted to a user. Since I am used to keeping root separate as a user I will change the default behavior to treat root as a user. Below are the steps carried out to change this behavior. Before we can change the role root to a user it must be first revoked from any user to which it is granted.

Before doing this we should change over to root, otherwise, we will encounter permission error. Please note above currently root is enabled as a role that is why type is shown as a role.

Once we change it to a user the type will no more show as a role. Also, userattr does not show anything it signifies that is no more a role now. Root has successfully been converted to a user now and can be used directly for login purpose.

Since most of the time I start my VM in headless mode and connect to it via putty in my local laptop I always enable SSH for even root.

If you do not intend to do so this step may be skipped. Step 2 : Change the login behavior for root so that it is not restricted to login in console only.

If we comment the line related to the console then root can login from other devices too. After completing these steps we should be able to login as root using SSH from any other device. Below I have logged in from my local laptop using putty. Network setup in Solaris No more the configuration is file-based. A new set of network-related commands has been provided by Oracle.

Using these commands we will setup the basic network requirement that we have. The key points for achieving the Basic network setup that we want to achieve are:. For carrying out the configuration primarily we will be using two of the networking commands i.

For network configuration, we will be carrying out all changes using the root user. The IPs that I will be aiming are:. In Solaris 11 there is a very important aspect to remember before going ahead with the network setup and that is the ncp Network Configuration Profile. There are two ncp profiles available i. Automatic and DefaultFixed. Automatic — used primarily when we do not want to bother about configuring the network by ourselves. It is basically for users who want to use DHCP and let the network become available automatically.

DefaultFixed — is the one that we should choose as an administrator as we want our networks to be configured manually as per our requirements. Using this profile we have to manually configure each component of the network so that it remains stable even after a reboot.

Note: It just intrigued me whether we could use Automatic profile for configuring IPs manually so I tried to do that. What I noticed was there was no difference in the interface configuration however the DNS configuration was affected. Whereas in DefaultFixed profile it did not happen. All my configurations remained stable even after a VM reboot.

Currently Automatic is online enabled. We will enable the DefaultFixed before our further setup. We see that there are 3 network ports net0, net1 and net2 visible showing the state as unknown. Since they have not been setup yet they are still inknow. The most important information it shows is the MTU size which might be required in case we want to change it. In Solaris 11 we can have multiple profiles associated with the same nic and as per required we can enable and disable it.

However, I do not want to have multiple profiles and will be creating only one profile for each interface. Step 7 : Create network profile and assign a static IP Accordingly, we will first setup rest two other network interfaces and then setup the DNS. Now that we have completed the network interfaces setup we will verify if we are able to connect to the Internet using net0.

Due to the missing default route to the gateway, it is not able to contact the outside world. Step 13 : Add the missing route manually. For name resolution to happen we need to setup proper DNS client. Steps for setting up the DNS client are as provided below.

Two important settings that are highlighted is the default search domain which I have set as labhdomain as that is what I use in my local environment. Second is the multiple nameservers that we want to use. Home » Solaris Installation Guide on VMware Workstation Solaris installation guide will be the first in a series of tutorials designed to build an Oracle Solaris environment where we can discuss and learn step by step.

All the necessary steps for this solaris installation guide are shown on the images below. Solaris Installation Steps on a VMware Virtual Machine This suppose that we created a virtual machine with the following configuration and that we have attached the iso image we downloaded earlier.

Boot the VM and follow this steps: 1- Choose the keyboard layout 2- Select the installation language 3- Press F2 at the welcome screen 4- Choose Local Disks and press F2 5- The installer will propose a default disk layout based on the new GPT format, it will then create a partition table as shown.

Shutdown the virtual machine and take a snapshot. Solaris Tutorials. View more Tutorials: Solaris Tutorials. Follow us on our fanpages to receive notifications every time there are new articles.