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Re: [Xen-users] Solaris dom0, prebuilt domU?

To: Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Solaris dom0, prebuilt domU?
From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:00:20 -0800 (PST)
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>So far as I can tell, xVM (the Solaris re-badge
>of Xen) does things completely differently from Linux when it comes to
>handling guest images, and the only docs I can find for it describe
t>heir convenience tool, virt-install, not the mechanics of how
>virt-install works its magic.
Yes, it's old Red Hat's magic.
Feel free to consult Red Hat Manuals regarding libvirtd daemon, package python-virtinst,
virt-install and etc been written a before SNV 75(A) ,66  Sun's original Xen drops. I mean F7, CentOS 5.0 ( Xen 3.0.3 enabled Systems).


--- On Sat, 1/10/09, Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Solaris dom0, prebuilt domU?
To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 11:33 AM

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:29:46AM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> Looks like it's more about Gentoo as PV DomU, then OpenSolaris 2008.11
> or Solaris Nevada (b 103) Dom0.
> Would the most recent Xen 3.3.1 port to CentOS 5.2 help you to install
> Gentoo as PV DomU or , in other words, would you be able to install Gentoo
PV DomU at Xen 3.3.1 CentOS 5.2 Dom0? ?

I have Linux dom0 machines that I'm quite happy with.

Now though I have some Sun hardware that really wants to run Solaris
(native hardware monitoring tools, ZFS, etc.) I have OpenSolaris
2008.11 running happily on the hardware with a dom0 kernel, and I can
make it set up Solaris domU instances. I *think* that I could make it
run Linux domU's if I had Linux ISO images with Xen kernels on them,
because that's what the Solaris domU setup tool expects; but so far I
don't have any such ISO images.

I do have (and can easily make) all sorts of domU system images, like
what one gets from jailtime.org. That's easy. What I can't figure out
is how to get the domU image into place for running on the Solaris host
system without following the expected pattern of "virt-install with an
ISO installer image". So far as I can tell, xVM (the Solaris re-badge
of Xen) does things completely differently from Linux when it comes to
handling guest images, and the only docs I can find for it describe
their convenience tool, virt-install, not the mechanics of how
virt-install works its magic.



> --- On Fri, 1/9/09, Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Xen-users] Solaris dom0, prebuilt domU?
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 11:41 PM
>
> Hi List.
>
> I'm still feeling my way through my first Solaris dom0, after a few
> successful experiences with Linux dom0. Getting a Solaris domU is nice
> and easy, but now I need to start building Linux systems.
>
> Following the directions at opensolaris.org, it looks like virt-install
> really wants to run a classic "install CD" with a domU-aware
kernel,
> but I don't have such a thing since our Linux of choice is Gentoo. (I
> could patch a Gentoo-minimal CD with a new kernel, but I haven't quite
> figured out the mechanics of that yet.)
>
> I do have abundant resources for pre-building system images, which is
> what I generally do for all our VMware guests, but I haven't figured
out
> how to take a built guest image and run it on a Solaris dom0.
>
> It looks like I might be able to hand-roll an xVM xml config file, but I
> haven't been able to find documentation for that, and the examples I
> have from virt-install have comments at the top which warn against
> hand-editing.
>
> So I need a clue.
>
> Thanks,
> --Michael
>
>
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