Re: [Xen-users] opensolaris domU?

[Jeff Utter <jeffutter.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, zfs is the real reason i want a opensolaris domU.

I think i will try doing the initial setup in Qemu tonight. I'll let 
everyone know how that goes
-Jeff

Tim Post wrote:
> In theory you should be able to setup opensolaris as a hvm guest.
> Setting up opensolaris as a dom-0 as a hvm guest, then having
> opensolaris support additional guests (sort of like box in a box in a
> box) ... I'm not so sure about. A similar question was raised about
> openVZ. 
>
> My problem has been getting VT servers that aren't otherwise already
> occupied to use for testing. 
>
> While I would love to just play with OpenSolaris, my biggest interest is
> playing with zfs. 
>
> Again please keep us informed, success could help (im sure) many of us
> get a few more boxes past the 'bean counters' for R&D use :)
>
> Thanks again -
> Tim
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 10:36 -0400, Jeff Utter wrote:
>   
> > Hey, thanks for the reply.
> >
> > I'm not using Sun's Xen. I don't have a readily available solaris box 
> > either. I was hoping someone knew a method to setup opensolaris under 
> > xen without solaris? I think it would work in a HVM setup (which i don't 
> > have readily available either) The other option is setting up a 
> > dedicated box like mentioned on sun's xen site. and making an image from 
> > that. I tried doing that in vmware but it wouldn't even boot after i 
> > rebuilt the kernel.
> > Any ideas? Did you setup a dedicated box like they have mentioned on 
> > their site and just copy the resulting image to a linux box?
> > -Jeff
> >
> > John Levon wrote:
> >     
> > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:55:06PM -0400, Jeff Utter wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > I'm just wondering if anyone has success with a modified solaris dom0 
> > > > under xen with a Linux dom0? Should be possible (not easy though) based 
> > > > on sun's documentations.. I think you would need a physical solaris box 
> > > > or at least a HVM domain to make the initial image.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > This is how we brought up Solaris domU, and we've done sporadic testing
> > > since. I'm not sure, but you may need to turn off checksumming via
> > > ethtool on the Linux dom0. Also, if you're not using Sun's version of
> > > Xen, you may experience instability with SMP domUs (this is related to
> > > writable pagetables). But it should certainly work in theory... if you
> > > manage to get it working, we'd appreciate hearing about your
> > > experiences...
> > >
> > > regards
> > > john
> > >   
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