Cloning Solaris 10 on Virtualbox?

If you use virtual machines a lot you will definitely want to clone them and make installs much, much easier.

To do this, use the VBoxManage.exe clonehd source destination command. If you're using Windows, this has to be done using the command line.


Once you clone the image and boot it up you will have to change the hostname and IP address so it doesn't conflict with other VM. To change the hostname, edit the /etc/hosts and /etc/nodename files.

To change the IP address, change /etc/hostname.network_interface and restart the network services using svcadm restart /network/service.