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Quite a while ago I tried installing Solaris 9 in VirtualBox 2.1.4, which sadly failed miserably. A quick look at the bug database shown that there was some known issues with Solaris 9 and that at that time it was impossible to make it work under VirtualBox. A bit sad since virtual machines are a great way to test and develop for many legacy operating systems at the same time. But things have changed! A recent comment on the bug report in question asked if Solaris 9 was working with VBox 3.0.6.

I found myself having to test some OpenMPI code recently, and needed a small cluster for the task. Performance wasn't really an issue for those tests since only the correctness of the code was important. Generally, in those situations where I need to test something quickly in an isolated environment I use VirtualBox or a Solaris zone. So I thought, why not here also.