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Recently I have replaced my VMware 6.0 with the new 6.5 beta version which -- unfortunately -- comes with a debug only mode . As the debug mode slows down the performance drastically, you can try the following workaround : mv /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-debug /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-debug.slow; mv /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-debug However the beta performs still significantly worser than the current stable version of VMware. And the CPU fan of my notebook switches into hurricane mode... The unity feature -- which makes it possible to embed guest OS applications into the host OS -- is really nice but also quite slow.

With OpenSolaris 2008.05 IPS was introduced as its new package manager which is written in Python. However IPS is still backward compatible to the classic SVR4 package format. If you are a Debian/Ubuntu Linux user who is familiar with the apt-get resp. aptitude package manager, you will be interested in looking at this table which shows the analogue (IPS) pkg commands to the well known apt-get commands . Hence to update your Solaris system simply execute pkg image-update -v which is the equivalent to apt-get 's apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade resp. aptitudes 's aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade command.