xen discuss - Jul 2006 - Solaris and Xen, Try it now! (Only for the brave...)

Last night, we released a "work-in-progress snapshot"
of the OpenSolaris on Xen project.
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/How-To-07-2006/

With this snapshot, you can can boot a 32-bit or 64-bit
Solaris Domain 0 (dom0) and boot multiple Solaris  *and*
Linux guest OSes (domUs) on the Solaris dom0.

You can even Live Migrate a domU from one dom0 to
another (i.e. from one machine to another).  OK, well
kind of.. It''s works most/some of the time depending on
your configuration. Still some bugs to fix there.

It''s a work-in-progress, there are restrictions to what
kind of machine you can run on, and there are bugs. We
still have a *lot* of work to do. But it is good enough
to play with right now... Just make sure you thoroughly
read the Release Notes and Known Issues.

This is for experienced Solaris users. You need to
know how to use BFU, and not mind if you mess up
your box. 

For more info, check out the Xen OpenSolaris community.
   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen


Thanks, and have fun!


The OpenSolaris on Xen Team
 
 
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>>It''s a work-in-progress, there are restrictions to what
>>kind of machine you can run on, and there are bugs. 
Some questions:

Is a Acer Ferrari 4005 ok for Xen?

Does Xen support suspend/resume for Notebooks?

If using BrandZ and Xen - in which order do I have to install these components?

regards

Bernd
 
 
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On 19 Jul 2006, at 9:31pm, Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Is a Acer Ferrari 4005 ok for Xen?
I''ve not personally tried a 4005, but have used Xen with a 3400  
frequently.  There were some problems with Xen driving the vga on the  
3400, but apart from that (!) things worked okay.

If you wanted to do a quick test before attempting an installation,  
XenSource have a ''demo cd'' that you can download from http:// 
www.xensource.com/xen/downloads/.  This should tell you if Xen works  
generally and, if it does, Solaris on Xen should work (if it doesn''t  
then we''d like to know).
> Does Xen support suspend/resume for Notebooks?
No, not when running a Solaris dom0 (not when running a Linux dom0  
either I believe).
> If using BrandZ and Xen - in which order do I have to install these  
> components?
At the moment this isn''t easy - Brandz and the Solaris-on-Xen  
implementations are separate branches from the mainline Solaris  
development train.  You could merge the two source trees yourself and  
build the result, but that would be quite a bit of effort if you are  
not familiar with the process (and might be quite a bit of effort  
even if you are).

dme.