In opposite to older releases, VirtualBox 1.6.0 seems to be quite stable and fast.

Since it's now Sun's property, I thought it might be a good idea to test OpenSolaris Indiana as a guest system.

Indiana is Sun's new "default" OpenSolaris Distribution. It's a full-fledged desktop operating system, including a Gnome-Desktop, a live-CD and a graphical installer.

Booting from VirtualBox is really simple, OpenSolaris uses Grub as boot-manager. One drawback: OpenSolaris Grub detects a already installed windows system, but it doesn't add already installed Linux Distributions to the boot-manager.

The Live-CD did start without any problems, however it took quite a time on my not-so-new equipment. While a Ubuntu Hardy VM starts in two or three minutes, it took Indiana nearly 15 minutes to present a graphical desktop.

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