Screencast - Install OpenSolaris in VirtualBox

Installing OpenSolaris on your machine may require some gentle hand holding if you are a first time user of the operating system. More so if you are thinking of installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox. But help is at hand. I came across an exceptionally done screencast which walks you through installing and configuring VirtualBox in Windows, and then installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox.


The screencast is divided into 7 parts namely -

• Introduction
• Getting the software - OpenSolaris & VirtualBox
• Installing VirtualBox
• Creating a Virtual Machine
• Starting OpenSolaris LiveCD in VirtualBox
  
• Installing OpenSolaris
• Guest Additions.

If you are wondering ... Installing Guest Additions will allow you to move your mouse pointer seamlessly between the host and the guest operating system.

At the end of the screencast, you get a link to another screencast which explain how to install additional packages in OpenSolaris the easy way.

Watch the full screencast.

This screencast could come in handy in installing any of the offshoots of OpenSolaris such as Belenix, Nexenta, and SchilliX.