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

[Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

i do not really understand your problem.

http://www.ezunix.org/index.php?title=Linux_XEN_DomU_on_OpenSolaris_Dom0

shows that the configs are the same - so what s the problem?

And as Todd pointed out its all based on Libvirt.

Thomas


Am Samstag, den 10.01.2009, 10:49 -0600 schrieb Michael Jinks:
> 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 ...which appears to be out of date with current Solaris dom0; it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.
> 
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