PalmPre WebOS emulator running on Sun's Virtual Box

This is really cool, it seems that one can test Palm Pre apps on a desktop PC by using Sun's Virtual Box

clipped from wilsonbroadcast.com Palm Pre webOS emulator As more and more people are getting their hands on the Pre, it looks like a few more developers have been given access to the SDK emulator. Well, either that or someone who has had access for a while got a little antsy and finally caved to leaking a ton of emulator screenshots. If these are legit, it looks like the webOS emulator runs on Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization application. Anybody feel like sending the webOS virtual image our way?

OpenSolaris Slow Shutdown on VBox

When running OpenSolaris as a guest OS for Virtual Box on Mac OS I noticed it was taking quite a while for OpenSolaris to shut down and the display was showing the following message:

 svc.startd[7]: application/graphical-login/gdm:default failed. Transitioned to maintenance. See svcs -x -v

It seems that instructions below solved my problem. Please go to the original posting to download necessary files...

clipped from sites.google.com OpenSolaris 2008.11 Tips > Fix Slow Shutdown OpenSolaris 2008.11 has a bug which causes it to take a long time to shutdown. You will also see this error message on the console: svc.startd[7]: application/graphical-login/gdm:default failed. Transitioned to maintenance. See svcs -x -v This is defect 4887. You can fix your system by doing the following: Replace /var/svc/manifest/application/graphical-login/gdm.xml with the attached gdm.xml . Ensure that the new gdm.xml file has is owned by root:sys and has 444 permissions: chown root:sys gdm.xml chmod 444 gdm.xml Place the attached svc-gdm file in /lib/svc/method . Ensure that it is owned by root:bin and has 555 permissions: chown root:bin svc-gdm chmod 555 svc-gdm Remove the following lines from /usr/sbin/gdm : # GConf now needs D-Bus, so to launch AT programs it is necessary for D-Bus to # be started with gdm. We start D-Bus as the "gdm" user. We do not do not # need root privilege for this since the GUI and AT programs all run as the # "gdm" user. # eval `/usr/bin/su - gdm -c /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID Restart the machine. svc-gdm 1k - on Dec 28, 2008 7:18 AM by {4} (version 2 / earlier versions) gdm.xml 3k - on Dec 28, 2008 7:18 AM by {4} (version 2 / earlier versions)