A couple of days ago, a "tweet" by SuperPat piqued my interest : OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 running on Virtual Box on Mac OS X 10.5.2…

So I decided to try it as I’ve just updated my MacBook Pro to Mac OS X 10.5.2

I first downloaded and installed VirtualBox for OS X (beta 3, Intel Macs only).

I started VirtualBox and created my first New Virtual Machine, for Solaris, 1GB of memory, self expanding disk of 20GB.

I downloaded the Open Solaris Developer Preview 2 iso image and mounted it on the Virtual Machine:

I started the virtual machine, starting the live image of Open Solaris. When it’s started, double click on the Install OpenSolaris icon and follow the installation wizard (it’s so simple and straightforward now, congratulation to the OpenSolaris installer team):

Rebooted the virtual machine and voila…

Well, almost ! In order to get the network access to work, I followed the instructions from Alan and added the pcn driver on OpenSolaris.

And finally, I could install OpenDS with the QuickSetup.jnlp file and start doing serious work 😉

Really, I don’t think it could have been much simpler and quicker to install that complete stack on a machine. And you don’t need Mac OS X to do it too… All you need is VirtualBox, OpenSolaris and OpenDS, all of them are based on open source projects and freely available.

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The Technical software event organized last week in Grenoble Engineering Center has been a great success. Kudos to Dominique, a great G.O.

The attendance exceeded our expectations (and almost our room capacity). There was more than 190 persons over the 4 days, an average of 100 attendees per day (and nearly 120 on the first dat), coming from 20 different countries.

On the Thursday and Friday, all the Campus Ambassadors from France attended the presentations and some additional meetings with their mentors and Dan Berg, CTO GSS & VP EMEA Systems Engineering.

 

 

Below some of our guest speakers : Dan Berg, Alban Richard -Director of the Directory Services Engineering and Grenoble Site Leader-, Roman Strobl -aka Mr. NetBeans-, Gilles Gravier –OpenSolaris and open source enthousiast-, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine –GlassFish evangelist and emeritus skier-.

On Friday, I presented an introduction to the OpenDS project (PDF) in the general session and in the afternoon a 2 hours session demoing the basic features and principles of OpenDS. There is some feedback to the developer team with regards to dsconfig and usability, an area where we haven’t really focused so far.

There has been other reports on the event, by Dominique [1], [2], [3]. [4], Alexis.

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It’s time to take on a break and spend time with our families.

I will be back next year. Meanwhile have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We will be hosting a technical software event for our partners, in the Grenoble Engineering Center from January 15th to 18th 2008.

The event will cover Sun Secure Global desktop, OpenSolaris, GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenDS, OpenESB , xVM, OpenJDK, OpenDMK, Identity Management, Federation Management, Java CAPS…

The detailed agenda, speakers’ list and contact information are already available.

Unfortunately, we have a limited number of seats available, so do not wait for the last minute to register.

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I’ve received Leopard yesterday, and after a careful backup, I’ve upgraded my MacBook Pro.

The install was straightforward and went very smoothly. I inserted the DVD, restarted the Mac, followed the few instructions, restart and done.

Overall I’m quite pleased with the new OS. The machine appears to be faster, especially Mail and Safari. I’ve already adopted and customized Spaces. I haven’t found the time to try Time Machine yet, nor ZFS. Hopefully I will find some time in the near future to play with these, but truly the laptop is a working tool more than a gaming device 🙂

There are also a few things that are annoying me. The first one is that Leopard changed by background image. This seems like a minor thing and I can certainly restore the previous picture, but I don’t understand why it had to be changed.

The second one is Java. I had Java 6 developer preview installed. After the upgrade, Java was no longer working. I could not even use the Java Preference panel to restore the default value. I had to hack the JavaVM.framework/Versions directory to get rid of the 6 version and now Java is working again. Still I would expect from a new and modern OS such as MacOS X 10.5 to have Java 6 available by default.

Was it worth the money ? Sure. And I’m going upgrade my home machines later this week…

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Dave Douglas, Vice President Eco Responsibility this morning during the Sun CEC 2007 General session.

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Caught in action, Terry Gardner also known as mister Wiki, blogging live from Las Vegas at Sun CEC 2007.

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Caught in action, Terry Gardner also known as mister Wiki, blogging live from Las Vegas at Sun CEC 2007.

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The show started early this morning with the general session featuring Dan Berg, Hal Stern, James Batty, Marc Tremblay, Andy Bechtolsheim…

Later doing the day, I attended the presentation by Fulup Ar Foll on the subject the Identity savvy Web 2.0. And I watched Glynn Foster demonstrating OpenSolaris and project Indiana.

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It was quite a long trip yesterday from Grenoble to Las Vegas, through Paris and Newark. Being trapped in planes the whole day was not so much fun, especially as the entertainment system in the transatlantic flight was out of service (although we -I and the other 30 other Sun French employees heading to Sun CEC- are a 2 minutes of entertainment as we watched Linux booting the system). But not being able to support the French Rugby team in their quarter-final against New Zealand was harder. We got the half-time score (3 -13) via SMS during the Newark stop. And when we landed in Las Vegas, many phones started to bip as the SMS announcing the victory of the French team could finally reached us. France had won 20 to 18. And I am proud to see the French flag floating here on the front of the Paris Las Vegas hotel .

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I’m heading tomorrow to Las Vegas for the Sun Customer Engineering Conference where I will be presenting with my esteemed colleague Terry Sigle some Directory Server 6 tricks and tips.

This will be my first visit to Las Vegas. The one thing that is already packed beside the presentation materials is my camera.

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On the subject of Simon Phipps, by Hugh Macleod at GapingVoid.

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Glassfish v2 and its companion Sun branded product Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 are being released today, delivering enterprise grade application servers.

Glassfish and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition have been playing well with each other for a long time now.

On one side, Glassfish v2 delivers by default an LDAP realm allowing centralization of Users and Groups into Sun Directory Server, integrating the application server with enterprises identity management solutions.

On the other side, Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.x contains a couple of web applications (the Directory Service Control Center and Directory Editor) that can be easily deployed in Glassfish v2. The following blog posts are providing the details:

• Directory Service Control Center on GlassFish V2
• Deploying Directory Service Control Center in Glassfish v2…
• Directory Editor 6 on GlassFish V2

Technorati Tags: directory-server, enterprise, java-enterprise-system, ldap, glassfish, glassfishv2, Sun

It was a long afternoon at the LDAPCon with presentations until nearly 8pm. Thanks to the organizers it was followed by a social event with food and free drinks. A good occasion to relax, taste the local beer, recall the old LDAP stories and redo the world until exhaustion of fuel :-).

Frank Tröger exposed his work on a Reference Schema for Identity Management, searching, sort and linking all of the LDAP schema that have been defined in that area (with a focus on higher education).

Daniel Pluta from Munich University of Technology talked about Access controls for Group and Role management.

Giovanni Baruzzi from Syntlogo presented his thought on Designing a Directory Tree. In a nutshell, keep it simple:

"As flat as possible, as deep as needed"

Hilla Reynolds, Director of Development at CA revealed in a very animated and humorous presentation her secrets for a "Seamless Directory Backbone service": Standards, distribution, failover… Applications access front-ends that deal with the real sources of information.

Other sessions I did not attend (split sessions) included a presentation of the Apache Directory Studio (formelly known as LDAP studio). Impressive tool and progress since I last downloaded it. And a presentation on Spring LDAP.

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It was a long afternoon at the LDAPCon with presentations until nearly 8pm. Thanks to the organizers it was followed by a social event with food and free drinks. A good occasion to relax, taste the local beer, recall the old LDAP stories and redo the world until exhaustion of fuel :-).

Frank Tröger exposed his work on a Reference Schema for Identity Management, searching, sort and linking all of the LDAP schema that have been defined in that area (with a focus on higher education).

Daniel Pluta from Munich University of Technology talked about Access controls for Group and Role management.

Giovanni Baruzzi from Syntlogo presented his thought on Designing a Directory Tree. In a nutshell, keep it simple:

"As flat as possible, as deep as needed"

Hilla Reynolds, Director of Development at CA revealed in a very animated and humorous presentation her secrets for a "Seamless Directory Backbone service": Standards, distribution, failover… Applications access front-ends that deal with the real sources of information.

Other sessions I did not attend (split sessions) included a presentation of the Apache Directory Studio (formelly known as LDAP studio). Impressive tool and progress since I last downloaded it. And a presentation on Spring LDAP.

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