Sun v40z + 64bit Windows

[Jack Dao]

It doesn't seem to be supported form Sun, but will any 64bit versions
of Windows run on this machine?
Like Windows 2003 64bit, or WIndows 2008 64bit?

Thanks, Jack

[John D Groenveld]

[follow-up's set to comp.sys.sun.hardware]
In article <b2ec4a43-0bfa-4bc8...@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,

I asked the Google Oracle for the "Microsoft HCL" and I found
your answer here:
<URL:http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/marketplace/item.aspx?idItem=4f12b0f3-7a9b-cfd1-273e-5974ec77dce7>

I would make certain you're running the latest BIOS and
SP firmware:
<URL:http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/downloads.jsp>

Good luck,
John
groe...@acm.org

[solx]

Hi,

Having run Windows XP x64 and 2003 I found that I have replace it with
32bit Windows due to :-
a) poor driver support
b) software issues

[Doug McIntyre]

solx <nos...@example.net> writes:
>On 05/02/2010 15:39, Jack Dao wrote:
>> It doesn't seem to be supported form Sun, but will any 64bit versions
>> of Windows run on this machine?
>> Like Windows 2003 64bit, or WIndows 2008 64bit?
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Jack

>Having run Windows XP x64 and 2003 I found that I have replace it with

>32bit Windows due to :-
>a) poor driver support
>b) software issues

XP 64-bit was far out there with zero driver support. Later windows
releases 64-bit support is much better. The driver model changed after
XP 64-bit was done, and there is actual support now. It was much like WinME,
different, alone, and virtually unsupported.

Microsoft ships server 2008R2 *only* in a 64-bit configuration. 2003/2008
server running in 64-bit mode works just fine for anything I've done.
I've also run Windows7 in 64-bit with zero issues as well.

Of course, they still have issues with 64-bit IE not having any plugin
support and being unusable so nobody uses it, thus prompting nobody to
put in an effort to make 64-bit plugins. They should all take cues
from Darwin that in many cases, its quite easy to compile things as
dual 32-bit & 64-bit and be done. Solaris is almost as easy. Windows
stuff, not so much.

[Jack Dao]

Thanks Doug. But I'm not sure what you're saying with respect t the
Sun V40Z and Windows Server 2008.

Do you have Windows server 2008 up and running on a Sun v40z ??

Thanks, Jack

[Doug McIntyre]

Jack Dao <d...@snakebrook.com> writes:

>On Feb 6, 11:17=A0am, Doug McIntyre <mer...@geeks.org> wrote:
>> solx <nos...@example.net> writes:
>> >On 05/02/2010 15:39, Jack Dao wrote:
>> >> It doesn't seem to be supported form Sun, but will any 64bit versions
>> >> of Windows run on this machine?
>> >> Like Windows 2003 64bit, or WIndows 2008 64bit?
>>
>> >> Thanks, Jack
>> >Having run Windows XP x64 and 2003 I found that I have replace it with
>> >32bit Windows due to :-
>> >a) poor driver support
>> >b) software issues
>>

>> XP 64-bit was far out there with zero driver support. =A0Later windows

>> releases 64-bit support is much better. The driver model changed after

>> XP 64-bit was done, and there is actual support now. It was much like Win=

>ME,
>> different, alone, and virtually unsupported.
>>
>> Microsoft ships server 2008R2 *only* in a 64-bit configuration. 2003/2008
>> server running in 64-bit mode works just fine for anything I've done.
>> I've also run Windows7 in 64-bit with zero issues as well.
>>
>> Of course, they still have issues with 64-bit IE not having any plugin
>> support and being unusable so nobody uses it, thus prompting nobody to
>> put in an effort to make 64-bit plugins. They should all take cues
>> from Darwin that in many cases, its quite easy to compile things as
>> dual 32-bit & 64-bit and be done. Solaris is almost as easy. Windows
>> stuff, not so much.

>Thanks Doug. But I'm not sure what you're saying with respect t the
>Sun V40Z and Windows Server 2008.

>Do you have Windows server 2008 up and running on a Sun v40z ??

My comments are more related to Windows server running fine in 64-bit mode.
I have not put 2008 on a v40z.

[Stuart Biggar]

This does NOT directly answer your question but raises so cautions.

I do not have a V40z but have 64-bit Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
running on an x4150. Works OK. However, there are certain hardware/
software combinations the will NOT work on 64-bit windows, usually
because of driver issues. The ones I'm having issues with are rather
specialized but they do exist. The ones I have work OK with 32-bit
versions of Windows Enterprise server and on 32-bit versions of Vista
and XP. They fail to install or work on 64-bit.

If the CPU/chipset/bios support PAE, 32-bit Windows server versions
can get around some of the RAM limits of the client versions of
32-bit Windows. 64-bit is the clean way to use > 4 GB but if driver/
software issues preclude 64-bit, Server 2003 Enterprise and the
earlier 2008 (not R2) are useful on some machines.

Stuart