I played around with a linux xen, trying to setup a hvm Solaris (Nevada build60) domU. This failed because of errors like this: "WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@1 (ata1): timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0" Which is actually a well known qemu problem, fixed in qemu using this patch: http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg08090.html In qemu it was possible to work around such a problem by starting the Solaris kernel with option "-B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0". But apparently that got broken in snv_60. It seems as if the kernel command line option "-B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0" isn''t able to overwrite bootenv.rc,or something like that... ? Is this problem fixed in opensolaris release > snv_60 ? Bug ID 6534878 Synopsis hvm install of solaris b60 fails http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6534878 Bug ID 6543366 Synopsis solaris and HVM CDROM emulation do not cooperate http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6543366 (6534878 seems to contain a workaround with an additional read only install image file, that I''m going to try next...) This message posted from opensolaris.org
I wrote> In qemu it was possible to work around such a problem by starting the > Solaris kernel with option "-B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0". But apparently that > got broken in snv_60. It seems as if the kernel command line option > "-B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0" isn''t able to overwrite bootenv.rc,or something > like that... ?Yep, apparently you can''t overwrite bootenv.rc settings with "-B property=value", since direct boot was integrated (<= snv_60) and before the fix for 6520287 "Serial console redirection ignores ttyX-mode with direct boot" got integrated (snv_64).> Is this problem fixed in opensolaris release > snv_60 ? > > > Bug ID 6534878 > Synopsis hvm install of solaris b60 fails > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6534878 > > Bug ID 6543366 > Synopsis solaris and HVM CDROM emulation do not cooperate > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6543366 > > (6534878 seems to contain a workaround with an additional read only > install image file, that I''m going to try next...)Yep, using the two workarounds from 6534878 it was possible to install snv_60 into a domU running on a linux box. This message posted from opensolaris.org