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Operating Systems Solaris Dual boot Windows10 and Solaris 11.3??? UEFI Post 302968647 by kebabbert on Saturday 12th of March 2016 09:31:50 AM
Old 03-12-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by gandolf989
If you have the memory, wouldn't it be better to create a Solaris VM. Then you can use Windows and Solaris at the same time. For that matter why learn Solaris, when so many companies are using Linux... I supported Oracle databases on Solaris in the past, and it just seems that there is significantly more development in Linux than Solaris.
I do the other way around: I run Solaris bare metal, and then virtualize Windows via VirtualBox. The reason is that Solaris is more stable than Windows, so it makes more sense to run Solaris bare metal. Another reason I run Solaris bare metal, is because I use ZFS for all my storage, because ZFS detects and repairs data corruption (Windows NTFS can not do this).

If I had used Windows bare metal and virtualized Solaris, then my ZFS data get corrupt when Windows crashes, killing the Solaris VM as well.


Quote:
Originally Posted by fpmurphy
The general rule of thumb for Windows and any other operating system sharing the same disk is to install Windows first. This is because most versions of Windows OSes assume that all devices and all disk space belong to the Windows OS.

Once Windows is installed and functional, you can then free up disk space to create additional partitions and install a non-Windows OS such as Solaris or Linux.
I tried this approach twice, but Windows got corrupted and I had to try to rescue it. Which I did not succeed with. So I installed Solaris first, and then everything worked fine.
 

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os_type

os_type(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  os_type(3alleg4)

NAME

       os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       extern int os_type;

DESCRIPTION

       Set by allegro_init() to one of the values:

	  OSTYPE_UNKNOWN    - unknown, or regular MSDOS
	  OSTYPE_WIN3	    - Windows 3.1 or earlier
	  OSTYPE_WIN95	    - Windows 95
	  OSTYPE_WIN98	    - Windows 98
	  OSTYPE_WINME	    - Windows ME
	  OSTYPE_WINNT	    - Windows NT
	  OSTYPE_WIN2000    - Windows 2000
	  OSTYPE_WINXP	    - Windows XP
	  OSTYPE_WIN2003    - Windows 2003
	  OSTYPE_WINVISTA   - Windows Vista
	  OSTYPE_OS2	    - OS/2
	  OSTYPE_WARP	    - OS/2 Warp 3
	  OSTYPE_DOSEMU     - Linux DOSEMU
	  OSTYPE_OPENDOS    - Caldera OpenDOS
	  OSTYPE_LINUX	    - Linux
	  OSTYPE_SUNOS	    - SunOS/Solaris
	  OSTYPE_FREEBSD    - FreeBSD
	  OSTYPE_NETBSD     - NetBSD
	  OSTYPE_IRIX	    - IRIX
	  OSTYPE_DARWIN     - Darwin
	  OSTYPE_QNX	    - QNX
	  OSTYPE_UNIX	    - Unknown Unix variant
	  OSTYPE_BEOS	    - BeOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOS	    - MacOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOSX     - MacOS X

SEE ALSO

       allegro_init(3alleg4), os_version(3alleg4), os_multitasking(3alleg4)

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