Hi, I have a couple of machines that are xen enabled (2 suse boxes) what I would like to do is install solaris-x86 into a domain on these 2 machines, is this possible? where/how do I begin? I have solaris-x86 on cds Thanks Nick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Bruton PADI Divemaster #624215 University of Bristol Yamaha YZF R1 Computing Service Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1UD Tel: 0117 9288193 Team email: isys-srct@bris.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> -----Original Message----- > From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of > Nick Bruton > Sent: 17 August 2006 13:40 > To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: [Xen-users] Confused > > Hi, > > I have a couple of machines that are xen enabled (2 suse > boxes) what I > would like to do is install solaris-x86 into a domain on > these 2 machines, > is this possible? where/how do I begin? I have solaris-x86 on cdsYou have two choices: 1. use HVM (full virtualization), which requires a processor that has hardware support for virtualization (AMDV or Intel VT). Aside from getting the required hardware, this should work pretty straight-forward [SHOULD - but you may run into some interesting problems - particularly if the boot-loader does interesting things in real-mode and you''re selecting Intel VT, since the Intel machines don''t have full real-mode support under virtualization - although this is being worked on]. 2. Find/create a version of Solaris-x86 that is para-virtual, i.e. modify places in the code that accesses hardware, memory mapping, etc, etc. This requires that someone who has access to the source-code and sufficient skill to modify it to use the Xen hypercalls where it''s needed. -- Mats> > Thanks Nick > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > Nick Bruton PADI > Divemaster #624215 > University of Bristol Yamaha YZF R1 > Computing Service > Tyndall Avenue > Bristol BS8 1UD > Tel: 0117 9288193 > > Team email: isys-srct@bris.ac.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Petersson, Mats wrote:> 1. use HVM (full virtualization), which requires a processor that has > hardware support for virtualization (AMDV or Intel VT). Aside from > getting the required hardware, this should work pretty straight-forward > [SHOULD - but you may run into some interesting problems - particularly > if the boot-loader does interesting things in real-mode and you''re > selecting Intel VT, since the Intel machines don''t have full real-mode > support under virtualization - although this is being worked on].Can you explain in more detail how to get this working? I''ve been trying to for a couple of days with no success. I''m trying to run Scientific Linux on an Intel VT machine. Cheers, Alex _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Iribarren [mailto:Alex.Iribarren@cern.ch] > Sent: 17 August 2006 14:12 > To: Petersson, Mats > Cc: Nick Bruton; xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Confused > > Petersson, Mats wrote: > > 1. use HVM (full virtualization), which requires a > processor that has > > hardware support for virtualization (AMDV or Intel VT). Aside from > > getting the required hardware, this should work pretty > straight-forward > > [SHOULD - but you may run into some interesting problems - > particularly > > if the boot-loader does interesting things in real-mode and you''re > > selecting Intel VT, since the Intel machines don''t have > full real-mode > > support under virtualization - although this is being worked on]. > > Can you explain in more detail how to get this working? I''ve > been trying > to for a couple of days with no success. I''m trying to run Scientific > Linux on an Intel VT machine.Can you describe the steps you''ve taken so far, and what doesn''t work... -- Mats> > Cheers, > Alex > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users