Re: [Xen-users] Solaris 10 HVM DomU

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Anyone with a sucessful story installing Solaris 10 as HVM DomU? Any
> > special step needed in the installation or configuration file for the
> > guest?
>
> No success here yet, but I'm trying to get both of these approaches
> working. I'm running an FC6 dom0.  Here's my "progress" so far:
>
> Approach 1 (paravirtualized) seems to work fairly well out of the box with
> Linux as a dom0 and using Linux-xen, even though they say you need to use
> the modified Solaris-xen.  However, networking doesn't work yet; I'm
> guessing the modified OpenSolaris doesn't have drivers for the virtual NIC
> provided by Xen to the VM.  I may need to ask about that on the OpenSolaris
> mailing list.

Cool to see that you've got this working.  What are you using as a disk image?  
SolarisExpress?  I've been wanting to try out Nexenta at some stage, but 
haven't got round to it yet.

> Approach 2 (HVM) is going less well so far.  After much patience I've been
> able to install Solaris 10 onto an empty disk image using qemu (it's very
> very slow and the Solaris 10 install process doesn't match their
> documentation and is in fact broken in one part).  It will run in qemu but
> again the network doesn't work with either the default qemu virtual NIC or
> the realtek qemu virtual NIC.  Furthermore, when I try to boot the image
> using Xen I get nowhere, with an error about my qemu image's format.

What's the error you're seeing?

> And 
> even if I could get the qemu image to boot using Xen, it's unlikely the
> network would be up, giving me no way to interface with it.  Maybe I could
> figure out how to have Solaris put a console on the serial port, but I'm a
> Solaris newbie so it's going very slowly.

Well, to start with you could export the guest's framebuffer over VNC.  Once 
you've figured out getting the console on the serial port, you should be able 
to just use xm console to log in.

> I have had success with HVMs for 
> WinXP, Win2003, and FC6, so I think my machine and Xen version are up to
> the task if I could get Solaris to behave.

What hardware is this?  Intel VT-x or AMD-V?

Cheers,
Mark

> Have you been working on this problem and had any more success than me?  Do
> you have any advice for me?  Would you like any more detail about what I've
> done so far?  Does anyone else on this list care about Solaris domU's on a
> Linux dom0?  :)
>
> Steve Brueckner, ATC-NY
>
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