Since I have been writing these days about working with MySQL on
Solaris 10 virtual machine on Mac Book, I thought why not blog
about a very cool offer by Sun. As a part of their media kit
program, you can get a free Solaris 10 DVD of your choice. The choices
you have are:
1. Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Developer Tools, or
2. Solaris Express, Developer Edition for x86 systems.
With one request, you can request as many as 9999 licenses. What
a great way to market your product. For those who would be
interested in installing Solaris 10 for your Mac, this is a good
opportunity so you can have a copy of Solaris 10 on DVD.
This is a very cool and smart move by Sun. There are certainly
lessons to be learned here for other open source companies like
MySQL.
One thing I am wondering about is that whether …
The slides for my innotop presentation at the recent MySQL Conference have been posted, along with other presenter's slides, on the conference presentations page. Love that stock photography!
BarcampBrussels 3 is over. By popular Demand I gave the Squeeze the most out of MySQL talk.
I've placed the presentation about MySQL online. As I only had a good 20 minutes there are more slides in the presentation than you've actually seen.
Now that I am happy with my Solaris 10 virtual machine running on
my Mac Book, I can proceed with installing (compiling) MySQL on
it. However as you can expect, the default Solaris 10
installation doesn't install cc compiler by default. We can
confirm that if the following error message is displayed when
running we run cc on Solaris 10 console:
bash-3.00# cc
/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
What this means is that we need to install Sun Studio 11 from
Sun site. Before downloading you need to be
logged in. The download file studio11-sol-x86.tar.bz2 is about
332.6MB.
Once you have it installed, check the checksum and then proceed
with decompressing the Sun Studio 11 bz2 file. Note I used the
very verbose and keep option. You may or may …
Solaris 10 currently does not support the RTL8029 network driver
to be emulated in virtual machines. In order for us to have
RTL8029 support on a Solaris 10 virtual machine, we must install
the RTL8029 network adapter driver. This driver can be configured
manually or by running the network.sh script. When Solaris 10
virtual machine is running, we need to connect vmtools.iso to the
CD/DVD ROM drive of Solaris 10 machine. To do this, go to Devices
/ CD/DVD ROM / Connect Image.
Now browse to Library / Parallels / Tools / vmtools.iso and click
open. Then browse to /cdrom/prltools/drivers/network/solaris and
run network.sh.
At this point, you should be able to ping your favorite website …
Ok, so after the installation ended I got the dreaded "Solaris
10" Software Installation partially failed.
The detailed error messages were located in /tmp/install. Most
errors were related to unallocated space in UFS something that
may be explainable by the fact that it is an expanding file
system and for a virtual machine. However most installations were
successful so I decided to ignore the errors for now (after
logging) and proceed.
Next was the confirmation screen for additional software which
had installed successfully.
…
This is the third part of installing Solaris 10 on Mac book as a
virtual machine using Parallels.
We left off at the "Type of Install" screen for which I am going
to choose Custom Install.
Next, choose the software localizations. If you don't choose any
localization, the default English version of Solaris will be
installed.
The default selection was English POSIX C (C). I chose the
English US UTF-8 as the inital locale to be used after the system
initializes.
Depending on your preference, you may also want to install Java
Enterprise …
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In my last post, I started a guide to install SOlaris 10 as a
virtual machine on Mac book using Parallels. This is a
continuation of that post.
After clicking finish, I was presented with the following screen
for a moment:
Then it started to make an attempt to boot, however since the DVD
wasn't ready, the boot failed.
Before I know it, I was seeing the message presented in the
following screen shot:
Don't worry if you see a similar message. All you gotta do is
stop the virtual machine, make sure the …
I've been working on some very interesting benchmarking using
the
DBT2 test suite developed by OSDL for MySQL Cluster. As part of
this
work I've made significant additions to the DBT2 test to enable
clustered
test runs. I've also developed a set of scripts to enable easy
start and
stop of MySQL Cluster processes.
The benchmarks include comparisons of various connect methods
using
Ethernet and Dolphin Express cards. It also discusses
improvements using
the latest version of the Intel Core2 architecture.
As part of this work I discovered a couple of essential
performance
optimisations and scalability optimisations. All these
improvements
are currently being integrated in MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade
Edition.
To enable those wanting "bleeding edge"-access I've also made
the
benchmark version available on www.iclaustron.com
A short …