Solaris

Smokin Whale,
Yes Solaris 11 Express is a bata. The free community version was called OpenSolaris, but Oracle shut that down. The OpenSolaris has forked and is now called illunmos. Also Solaris 10 is free to use as well.

Solaris 11 Express is not beta. It is a production version which you can get support for. Whether is stable enough to call production worthy might be debatable.

This thread isn't really a debate about whether Solaris 11 Express is beta or not... Either way, it has caused me plenty of problems in the past, and I'm keen to change to something not so buggy. Once it's running though, it's great. It's only a server for a home business, for one person. It's not a huge deal, but it is wasting my time...

I have access to masses of system logs, would these be of assistance in finding the problem?

In other news, I changed a few settings in the BIOS, namely virtualization and power saving features, and suddenly it won't boot with these commands. Changed it back and it then booted fine via commands.

Remove Virtualbox because it's almost 100% sure that program cause system crash. I had problems with Solaris 10. I installed Virutalbox and after a few reboots I could'nt boot to Solaris anymore so when I take a look into system logs I saw Virutalbox has crashed my box.

THANK YOU!!!

VirtualBox was the problem. I'm not sure how it didn't occur me earlier!!! Managed to uninstall it and my system now operates like normal! I will try an older version of VirtualBox and see if that exhibits different results. I am a very happy man right now!

Hey Smokin Whale,
Why why where you using Virtual Box? You know Solaris has has a feature called zones that can give you virtual Solaris servers on your server. This is used mostly to manage system resources and give prigram isolation. You can make a zone of Solaris or Linux, thought Linux is a little harder. It can't do Windows, if you want that I believe Red Hat can do that. Also VMware EXI can do all the operating systems. VMware gives you a 60 day trail when you download it. The software doen't stop working after the 60 day trail is over.

Any way I hope this helps

I need to run two Windows based servers... one for an AutoDesk Vault server and one for an old accounting system which is remotely accessed.

VMWare ESXi is too much effort for what I'm trying to do... Solaris Zones are useless to me too unfortunately. I don't have much choice apart from VirtualBox, and even older versions do not want to work... I'm going to try and old build from 2010 and see if that helps