All that extra power

I stared at top on my new server for a little bit yesterday and realized it needed more crap loaded up so it would get utilized more. I've been a fan of virtualization, which got some wheels turning. I decided to finish setting up a domain at home, a project I did prior to moving, so I installed Sun's hypervisor, VirtualBox. It was pretty simple. One two download, one decompression, two pkg commands.

>wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.2/VirtualBox-3.0.2-49928-SunOS.tar.gz

>tar xvf VirtualBox-3.0.2-49928-SunOS.tar.gz

>su

#pkgadd -G -d VirtualBoxKern-3.0.2-SunOS-r49928.pkg

#pkgadd -G -d VirtualBox-3.0.2-SunOS-r49928.pkg

Done. One thing I noticed is that running "#virtualbox" crashed, but as normal user it worked fine. I thought it would be harder. Package management takes all the fun out of late night installs. Due to being a student, Microsoft (calm down, they're not completely horrible) allows for legitimate downloads and installs of certain products. Both Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard x86 and Windows Server 2008 Standard x86 are available for free with a CD-Key. Go to Dreamspark.com for more information on free software for students. I am currently configuring my domain on Windows Server 2008. I wish it was 64bit but its free, so I'm not going to complain.

On a side note, package management really is unbelievable anymore. The first time I installed apache httpd, mysql, and php it took me a good two days to get it completely functional. Now, on OpenSolaris which is only the second iteration of OpenSolaris I should, I run the following command and its ready to go, with a whole lot of extra that I won't use.

#pkg install amp-dev

AMP is apache mysql php in case you were wondering. As to why I am using Microsoft projects, and talking about it on my blog, Active Directory is amazing. I work with it at work and so feel slightly familiar with it, so went with it. Sometimes diversity is necessary or easier.