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

["Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Halinka wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/Xen_and_Solaris.html
>>
>> should help you.
>
> Thanks.  That is a great resource, I've spotted answers to other
> questions I've run across before now.  But -- and maybe I'm being dense
> -- I still don't find an answer to the problem I'm having now.
>
> I've just restated my original post twice in response to other attempts
> to help me out, so I won't do that again, but... is there something in
> that list that I may be overlooking?  I only found two references to
> setting up a domU, one that just points out virt-install (which I
> already know about, and can't make do my bidding), and the other a
> broken link which I think used to lead to this page:
>
>  http://weblog.dme.org/posts/old/363/
>
> ...which appears to be out of date with current Solaris dom0; it
> describes a config file format that looks like what we use on Linux, not
> the XML thing Xen expects.
>
> It also uses xm for domU control.  From the OpenSolaris xm manpage:
>
>  DESCRIPTION
>     The main interface for command and control of both  xVM  and
>     guest  domains is virsh(1M). Users should use virsh wherever
>     possible, as it provides a generic and stable  interface  to
>     controlling  virtualized  operating systems. Some xVM opera-
>     tions are not yet implemented by virsh. In those cases,  the
>     legacy utility xm can be used for detailed control.
>
> ...all of which leads me to believe that, somewhere, there's an
> "OpenSolaris Way" of doing this that I'm just not finding.
>
> That excerpt does point to their "virsh" tool, which has a manpage,
> which says you can use it to load up an XML config file describing a
> domU.  But I can't find a description for how to get such a file in the
> first place.
>

The virt-install, virsh, etc. stuff is all based on libvirt
http://libvirt.org/

Cheers,
Todd

-- 
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

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