Solaris 11 Installation Notes

Obtaining the ISO

You need an Oracle account.

• Solaris 11.4 CBE

Proxmox Notes

VM Specs in Proxmox:

• Memory: 6GB (minimum)
• Machine: q35
• Network: Intel E1000
• Disk: VirtIO Block

If the VM has less than 5GB of memory at install time, the installer will fail in weird ways without ever telling you it’s running out of memory.

Post Install

mDNS Support (Avahi)

The service should already be installed by default. You can check if it is with:

pkg info pkg:/service/network/dns/mdns

If it’s not installed, you can install it with:

sude pkg install service/network/dns/mdns

Configure it with:

sudo /usr/sbin/svccfg -s svc:/system/name-service/switch
svc:/system/name-service/switch> setprop config/host = astring: "files dns mdns"
svc:/system/name-service/switch> select system/name-service/switch:default
svc:/system/name-service/switch:default> refresh
svc:/system/name-service/switch:default> validate
svc:/system/name-service/switch:default> quit

Now enable the service:

sudo svcadm enable svc:/network/dns/multicast:default