xen discuss - Sep 2008 - B98 Solaris DomU on B98 Solaris Dom0 - installer not finding disks

Greetings,

I have a problem that is baffling me.  My host machine is an older Dual Xeon
machine that does not support HVM - PAE is supported.

I have 2008.11 b98 installed as Dom0.  I''m trying to install the same
as a DomU.
In the DomU, I''m starting the ssh service, logging in with X forwarding
and starting the gui with:

(dom1) jack$ pfexec gui-install

The gui displays on my X11 system.  I click "next", and the installer
does not recognize my virtual drive.  I can not continue past this screen.

I have verified the virtual drive exists.
(dom1) pfexec fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/c3d0p0
* Dimensions:
*    512 bytes/sector
*     63 sectors/track
*    255 tracks/cylinder
*   1305 cylinders
* Id    Act  Bhead  Bsect  Bcyl    Ehead  Esect  Ecyl    Rsect    Numsect
  191   128  0      1      1       254    63     1023    16065    20948760

I am able to create, import, export, and destroy zpools on that drive.  I did
make sure I destroyed any pool named "rpool" before starting the
installer.

Is there something I''m missing?

I''ve created the domU using both virt-install and manual "xm
create".  Used both virtual device id "0" and "xvda".
I''ve also tried running the gui over VNC as describe in
http://blogs.sun.com/VirtualGuru/entry/installing_opensolaris_2008_05_into

(dom0)# virsh dumpxml dom1
<domain type=''xen'' id=''7''>
  <name>dom1</name>
  <uuid>6ff55f51-b68b-5580-e0db-b5ddb94e9923</uuid>
  <bootloader>/usr/lib/xen/bin/pygrub</bootloader>
  <os>
    <type>linux</type>
    <kernel>/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix</kernel>
    <initrd>/boot/x86.microroot</initrd>
    <cmdline>/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix -B
console=ttya,livemode=text</cmdline>
  </os>
  <memory>1740800</memory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>preserve</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <interface type=''ethernet''>
      <target dev=''vif7.0''/>
      <mac address=''00:16:3E:3f:fb:0f''/>
      <script path=''vif-vnic''/>
    </interface>
    <disk type=''file'' device=''cdrom''>
      <driver name=''file''/>
      <source file=''/rpool/iso/inst.iso''/>
      <target dev=''6''/>
      <readonly/>
    </disk>
    <disk type=''block'' device=''disk''>
      <driver name=''phy''/>
      <source dev=''/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dom1''/>
      <target dev=''0''/>
    </disk>
    <console tty=''/dev/pts/4''/>
  </devices>
</domain>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:04:16PM -0700, Eric Bardes wrote:
> I have a problem that is baffling me.  My host machine is an older Dual
Xeon machine that does not support HVM - PAE is supported.
> 
> I have 2008.11 b98 installed as Dom0.  I''m trying to install the
same as a DomU.
> In the DomU, I''m starting the ssh service, logging in with X
forwarding and starting the gui with:
This is a known issue:

6729345 The virtual drives are not available to Solaris installer run in domU
with dom0 running build 93

I don''t know any workaround.

regards
john