I’ve been having some problems establishing DomU’s with my new Solaris Express install. Before spending to much time running into issues that may have already been fixed I thought it worth while to move to the latest release. Fortunately the default Solaris Express install is ahead of me and has saved a slice for a live upgrade boot environment. Here’s my experience of moving from snv_78 to snv_81. Read the rest of this entry »

I thought it was time I gave Solaris Express a whirl on my Mac Pro (2006 version), as the bare-metal OS, rather than just virtualizing in VMWare Fusion. The main motivation for this is so I can give the xVM technologies a whirl. xVM is basically Sun’s spin of Xen. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know about you but I find the myriad entrances and exists from Woodhouse Lane car park in Leeds city centre totally baffling, especially how they relate to the A58(M) Inner Ring Road.

For example if you drive up Claypit Lane and turn right onto the slip road for the A58(M) you can’t get across to the car park, rather you should have approached from the previous exit on the A58(M), or is it A64(M) at that point? Instead you must drive on past the turn for the Merion Centre car park, turn right, go all the way round the Dry Dock, through various sets of lights and enter via the north entrance.

In an attempt to better understand this most baffling of car parks I’ve put a map together which hopefully will help me plan the right trajectory that will allow access to the car park. The significant oddity that the map does not elucidate is that the exit to the south (city centre) is on level 1, the exit on the north (eventually eastbound) is on level 7 and the exit on the east side (eventually northbound) is on level 12 down a fabulous ‘they wouldn’t build it like that these days’ style ramp. Anyway here’s the first draft of the map.

Update: Since publishing this I’ve noticed there is a further exit on level 8 on the east side of the building that connects with the ramp running down from level 12.