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RE: [Xen-users] Confused

To: "Nick Bruton" <nick.bruton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Confused
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:07:30 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Nick Bruton
> Sent: 17 August 2006 13:40
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Confused
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a couple of machines that are xen enabled (2 suse 
> boxes)  what I 
> would like to do is install solaris-x86 into a domain on 
> these 2 machines, 
> is this possible? where/how do I begin? I have solaris-x86 on cds

You have two choices:
1. use HVM (full virtualization), which requires a processor that has
hardware support for virtualization (AMDV or Intel VT). Aside from
getting the required hardware, this should work pretty straight-forward
[SHOULD - but you may run into some interesting problems - particularly
if the boot-loader does interesting things in real-mode and you're
selecting Intel VT, since the Intel machines don't have full real-mode
support under virtualization - although this is being worked on]. 

2. Find/create a version of Solaris-x86 that is para-virtual, i.e.
modify places in the code that accesses hardware, memory mapping, etc,
etc. This requires that someone who has access to the source-code and
sufficient skill to modify it to use the Xen hypercalls where it's
needed. 

--
Mats


> 
> Thanks Nick
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