Hi Neil,
1. The only way to shut down a Solaris HVM guest gracefully is to issue
the poweroff command from within the domain. Making this interact nicely
with the dom0 shutdown tools is on our list of things to do.
2. grub will come up on the virtual machine''s console after you power
it
on. You can access the console using vncviewer pointed at dom0. It''s
easier to interact with the Solaris console as text redirected through
the virtual serial port - see
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/solhvmguest
for details on how to do that.
- Russ
Neil Garthwaite wrote:> Hi,
>
> I''ve installed Solaris 10 u4 as a hardware virtual machine guest
> domain on SXDE 1/08 (aka Nevada b79b) which was fine, i.e. after the
> virt-install the domain was fine. However when I went to shutdown the
> domain I issued "virsh shutdown solarisHVM" which appeared to
> immediately terminate the guest domain. Note, I also have a
> paravirtualized domain "solarisPV" where I could observe a
graceful
> shutdown using "virsh shutdown ...". This raises two questions
for me.
>
> 1. How can I gracefully shutdown a Solaris HVM guest domain.
>
> 2. After a non-graceful shutdown of a Solaris HVM guest domain how can
> one interact with the guest domain''s grub menu to perform say a
> "Solaris failsafe" boot.
>
> Apologies if these are known issues on SXDE 1/08 or if I''ve missed
> something.
>
> Regards
> Neil
>
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