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When running OpenSolaris SX:CE >= snv_100 on different flavours of VMWare (Fusion, ESX, etc.) one needs to change edit the grub menu to include "disable-pcieb=true" at the end of the kernel line. To do this you will need to hit "e" to edit on the grub menu item, and then "e" on the line for the kernel. At the end of the line if there is no "-B" with options after that, add the "-B disable-pcieb=true". Once you have installed OpenSolaris, you can go ahead and edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst and add this there as well.

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Matt picks up on the David Young from Joyent's blog post about Leviathan toys.

Start with a few white box PCs built from spare parts, add a distribution of Linux, sprinkle in some great search technology, wave of the hand and capital and voila: you have a data-center down by the river. Look at the scale of it! It isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine each of these football-sized behemoths as a single “chip” on the surface of a worldwide motherboard. The processor is increasingly complex software (more and more transistors, more and more cycles, more and more heat). Who can approach?

More technology, which we won't be seeing here in .za for quite some time.

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