xen discuss - Sep 2009 - OpenSolaris as a PV domU guest on OpenSUSE 11.1 dom0 ...

Hello:

I''m a Solaris fan (worked for Sun), but unfortunately I can''t
install it on my DELL xps720 (for dom0)
due to "nv_sata" attach issues ( ... basically the driver
won''t attach unless I reconfigure the disks
to be RAID controlled; which would destroy data already in place). No good.

So I resigned to installing OpenSUSE 11.1 as the main O/S for dom0 (with Xen
3.3). And while I can
install OpenSolaris (2009.06) as a domU guest within the OpenSUSE Xen 3.3 dom0
context, it
seems I can only do so as a (slow) HVM guest.

Is it possible, generally speaking, to install OpenSolaris as a PV guest?
Perhaps someone
can share their domU.cfg file and procedure for their OpenSolaris as a PV guest,
if they have successfully done this (openSUSE or whatever dom0).

Really appreciate it, and thanks in advance.

Regards,
Noel Milton
-- 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Noel Milton
Vega<nmvega@computingarchitects.com> wrote:
> Is it possible, generally speaking, to install OpenSolaris as a PV guest?
yes
> Perhaps someone
> can share their domU.cfg file and procedure for their OpenSolaris as a PV
guest, if they have successfully done this (openSUSE or whatever dom0).
The "official" document is here :
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/linux-dom0/
This thread might give more help:
http://www.nabble.com/OpenSolaris-domU-on-RedHat-Linux-dom0-td25362846.html

-- 
Fajar

Thank you for answering the question, and for additionally pointing me in the
right direction Fajar. Appreciate it.

Regards,
Noel Milton
-- 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

Following the URL''s you provided, I found the following where were
pretty straight
forward, and worked on 2009.06 as well:

http://www.taiter.com/blog/2009/02/opensolaris-200811-paravirtual.html#more
http://bderzhavets.blogspot.com/2008/05/install-opensolaris-200805-domu-at-xen.html
http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/12/14/xen-opensolaris-200811-domu-running-on-a-linux-dom0

########################################################
Here is my resulting "pv-domU.cfg" file:
########################################################
name = "opensolaris-vm01"
uuid=""
disk =
[''file:/home/nmvega/Download/osol-0906-x86.iso,6:cdrom,r'',
''file:/var/lib/xen/images/openSolaris/instance01/root.img,0,w'']
vif=[''mac=00:16:3e:26:02:01, ip=10.0.2.1, vifname=vif2.0'']
########################################################


########################################################
# Compute resource allocations (except storage).
########################################################
memory=512
maxmem=512
vcpus=4
vfb=[''type=vnc,vncunused=1'']
########################################################


########################################################
# Configure xend''s respond to domU/guest run-level
# changes.
########################################################
on_poweroff="destroy"
on_reboot="restart"
on_crash="destroy"
########################################################


########################################################
# Locale settings.
########################################################
localtime=0
keymap="en-us"
########################################################


########################################################
# Guest/domU boot settings (this is the PV case).
########################################################
#kernel = "/var/lib/xen/images/openSolaris/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix"
#extra = "/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix -B
console=ttya,livemode=text"
#
kernel = "/var/lib/xen/images/openSolaris/i86xpv/kernel/unix"
extra = "/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix -B console=ttya,livemode=text"
#
ramdisk = "/var/lib/xen/images/openSolaris/x86.microroot"
########################################################
-- 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:56:58PM -0700, Noel Milton Vega wrote:
> disk =
[''file:/home/nmvega/Download/osol-0906-x86.iso,6:cdrom,r'',
''file:/var/lib/xen/images/openSolaris/instance01/root.img,0,w'']
Use ''xvda'' not ''0'' when doing an install.
''0'' is the (very) old way.

regards
john