Re: [Xen-devel] xen on illumos(OpenSolaris) based platform

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:37:19AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Igor Kozhukhov wrote:
> >>
> >> hello all!
> >>
> >> are you interested in port xen-4.1 to illumos(OpenSolaris) based platform?
> >> I have found old Sun works with xen-3.4.2 and updated it to xen-3.4.4
> >>
> >> I'll try to port xen-4.1.
> 
> > I'm interested specifically in HVM domU support.
> 
> > NCP3 hangs on boot on any versions of
> > Xen newer than 4.0.1 that I tried (even on 4.0.1, the kernel needs to be
> > patched ), and illumos hangs on boot on all the Xen versions that I tried.
> > These hangs are related to the PVHVM drivers (the install systems run OK,
> > and they don't include them).
> 
> I thought opensolaris (and derivatives) runs well as PV domU? What do
> you use HVM for?
> 

For some workloads it makes sense to use HVM (PVHVM). 
So the kernel bugs/issues in Illumos should be ironed out.. 

> Also, doesn't illumos support KVM? If you need full virtualization
> with *solaris, wouldn't it be easier for that particular purpose to
> try KVM instead?
>

A bit unusual suggestion on xen-devel mailinglist ;)

-- Pasi
 

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