Although I deleted my old OpenSolaris VirtualBox VM, I thought I'd see if KVM could handle the last OpenSolaris 134 development release.
KVM worked work, it installed very well and runs fast. What impressed me the most was the 134 build itself. Everything was updated and better than the older 2008.05 release I was stuck using at work (My Xeon CPU would not boot the 2009.06 release, build 118 and above seem okay).
The Package Manager looks wonderful. I'm using it to install SunStudioExpress, to explore the new developer features.
I think that I will keep this VM around and reload Solaris 11 into it whenever that gets released.
I find that it is always useful to use compilers from different platforms to check the correctness of your code, and Sun Studio is a good compiler.
