Installation of Solaris 10 Update 10 virtual machine on some versions of ESX might fail

Solaris Installation fails with kernel panic. This is because the of the memory size. Increase the memory size to 1.5GB.

Please refer Vmware kb 2007354.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007354