Re: [Xen-users] opensolaris domU?

[Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In theory you should be able to setup opensolaris as a hvm guest.
Setting up opensolaris as a dom-0 as a hvm guest, then having
opensolaris support additional guests (sort of like box in a box in a
box) ... I'm not so sure about. A similar question was raised about
openVZ. 

My problem has been getting VT servers that aren't otherwise already
occupied to use for testing. 

While I would love to just play with OpenSolaris, my biggest interest is
playing with zfs. 

Again please keep us informed, success could help (im sure) many of us
get a few more boxes past the 'bean counters' for R&D use :)

Thanks again -
Tim

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 10:36 -0400, Jeff Utter wrote:
> Hey, thanks for the reply.
> 
> I'm not using Sun's Xen. I don't have a readily available solaris box 
> either. I was hoping someone knew a method to setup opensolaris under 
> xen without solaris? I think it would work in a HVM setup (which i don't 
> have readily available either) The other option is setting up a 
> dedicated box like mentioned on sun's xen site. and making an image from 
> that. I tried doing that in vmware but it wouldn't even boot after i 
> rebuilt the kernel.
> 
> Any ideas? Did you setup a dedicated box like they have mentioned on 
> their site and just copy the resulting image to a linux box?
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> John Levon wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:55:06PM -0400, Jeff Utter wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I'm just wondering if anyone has success with a modified solaris dom0 
> >> under xen with a Linux dom0? Should be possible (not easy though) based 
> >> on sun's documentations.. I think you would need a physical solaris box 
> >> or at least a HVM domain to make the initial image.
> >>     
> >
> > This is how we brought up Solaris domU, and we've done sporadic testing
> > since. I'm not sure, but you may need to turn off checksumming via
> > ethtool on the Linux dom0. Also, if you're not using Sun's version of
> > Xen, you may experience instability with SMP domUs (this is related to
> > writable pagetables). But it should certainly work in theory... if you
> > manage to get it working, we'd appreciate hearing about your
> > experiences...
> >
> > regards
> > john
> >   
> 
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