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Re: [Xen-users] Solaris dom0, prebuilt domU?

To: Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Solaris dom0, prebuilt domU?
From: Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:03:51 +0100
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Hi Michael,

http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/Xen_and_Solaris.html

should help you.

Thomas



Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 22:41 -0600 schrieb Michael Jinks:
> Hi List.
> 
> I'm still feeling my way through my first Solaris dom0, after a few
> successful experiences with Linux dom0.  Getting a Solaris domU is nice
> and easy, but now I need to start building Linux systems.
> 
> Following the directions at opensolaris.org, it looks like virt-install
> really wants to run a classic "install CD" with a domU-aware kernel,
> but I don't have such a thing since our Linux of choice is Gentoo.  (I
> could patch a Gentoo-minimal CD with a new kernel, but I haven't quite
> figured out the mechanics of that yet.)
> 
> I do have abundant resources for pre-building system images, which is
> what I generally do for all our VMware guests, but I haven't figured out
> how to take a built guest image and run it on a Solaris dom0.
> 
> It looks like I might be able to hand-roll an xVM xml config file, but I
> haven't been able to find documentation for that, and the examples I
> have from virt-install have comments at the top which warn against
> hand-editing.
> 
> So I need a clue.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Michael
> 
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