RE: [Xen-users] Solaris 10 HVM DomU

[Steve Brueckner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Angel Lopez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to have a Solaris 10 (06/06) DomU in my Xen server. I've
> been reading some list messages about Solaris installation and it
> seems to be two alternatives:  
> 
> 1. Installation of prepared OpenSolaris b44 DomU image. This is not
> what I am looking for, I'd like to install standard Solaris 10
> distribution.  
> 
> 2. Installation of standard Solaris 10 with QEMU following this guide
>
(http://users.telenet.be/mylinux/Instalation_of_Solaris10_x86_on_linuxhost.h
tml)
> 
> Anyone with a sucessful story installing Solaris 10 as HVM DomU? Any
> special step needed in the installation or configuration file for the
> guest?  

No success here yet, but I'm trying to get both of these approaches working.
I'm running an FC6 dom0.  Here's my "progress" so far:

Approach 1 (paravirtualized) seems to work fairly well out of the box with
Linux as a dom0 and using Linux-xen, even though they say you need to use
the modified Solaris-xen.  However, networking doesn't work yet; I'm
guessing the modified OpenSolaris doesn't have drivers for the virtual NIC
provided by Xen to the VM.  I may need to ask about that on the OpenSolaris
mailing list.

Approach 2 (HVM) is going less well so far.  After much patience I've been
able to install Solaris 10 onto an empty disk image using qemu (it's very
very slow and the Solaris 10 install process doesn't match their
documentation and is in fact broken in one part).  It will run in qemu but
again the network doesn't work with either the default qemu virtual NIC or
the realtek qemu virtual NIC.  Furthermore, when I try to boot the image
using Xen I get nowhere, with an error about my qemu image's format.  And
even if I could get the qemu image to boot using Xen, it's unlikely the
network would be up, giving me no way to interface with it.  Maybe I could
figure out how to have Solaris put a console on the serial port, but I'm a
Solaris newbie so it's going very slowly.  I have had success with HVMs for
WinXP, Win2003, and FC6, so I think my machine and Xen version are up to the
task if I could get Solaris to behave.

Have you been working on this problem and had any more success than me?  Do
you have any advice for me?  Would you like any more detail about what I've
done so far?  Does anyone else on this list care about Solaris domU's on a
Linux dom0?  :)

Steve Brueckner, ATC-NY

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