GoKawiiltime for another Sun Ray blog post! I've had a few people email me asking for help setting up a Sun Ray server over the last few months, and despite my attempts to help them get it going there's been mixed results with running SRSS on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10.
my Sun Ray server is still on an earlier OI snapshot, so I figured it was about time to try to actually follow the new guides myself.
installing OI in a Proxmox VM
first hurdle - VM configuration. this is what worked for me on a PVE 9.0.11 host, but YMMV:
Install media: "OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 Live DVD (64-bit x86)" from the OpenIndiana downloads page (file name OI-hipster-gui-20251026.iso )
) Guest OS: "Solaris Kernel" (I'm not sure if this shows up in older PVE versions?)
Machine: type q35 , firmware as SeaBIOS
, firmware as SeaBIOS Graphic card: Standard VGA
Disks: 60GB, bus set to "VirtIO Block," cache set to "write back," discard turned on
CPU: model host , 1 socket, 4 cores
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