System News for Sun Users - The Blog

The VirtualGuru blog has posted a “warm welcome” for OpenSolaris 2008.05 on Amazon EC2 by offering a few helpful hints on how to get started:

Hands-on Experience: OpenSolaris on Amazon AWS (EC2 and S3)

• Creating OpenSolaris based JeOS
• JeOS on OpenSolaris Nevada line
• Netboot install of OpenSolaris Nevada line
• FreeWare SW for OpenSolaris Nevada line
• OpenSolaris 2008.05 released
• JeOS on OpenSolaris Indiana line
• Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode
• Determining OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS conf
• Creating OpenSolaris CLI JeOS RNJS by Uninstall
• Instalation of IPS freeware SW into OpenSolaris or Indiana

Pre-Prepared AMI images plus Inst&Conf hits

• Pre-build SXDE79 JeOS RNJS AMI images
  • AMI Evaluation Image: Liferay on Glassfish bundle DEMO
  • AMI Developer Image: Glassfish & MySQL bundle from Java EE
  • AMI Composite Image: Empty SXDE79 JeOS RNJS + S3 Glassfish V3 TP2 update

Amazon AWS (EC2, S3) useful tools and libs

• GUI tools for Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) - Usefull Firefox Plugins