[OpenIndiana-discuss] XEN and Crossbow

[Boris Derzhavets]

I followed standard procedure suggested by Mark Johnson to install OI 147 as
PV DomU at Xen 4.0.1 Linux Dom0 (2.6.32.21 pvops ) , like i would work with
OSOL 134 ( BTW, OSOL 134 gets installed with no problem) .
Installation crashes right away

Procedure itself ( like for OSOL134) :-

mount -o loop,ro osol147.iso  /mnt

cp /mnt/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive /home/boris/solaris

cp /mnt/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix  /home/boris/solaris

*******************
osol.install
*******************

name = "osol147"

vcpus = 1

memory = "1024"

kernel = "/home/boris/solaris/unix"

ramdisk = "/home/boris/solaris/boot_archive"

extra = "/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix - nowin -B install_media=cdrom"

disk = ['file:/root/osol147.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r','phy:/dev/sdb5,xvda,w']

vif = ['bridge=br0']

on_shutdown = "destroy"

on_reboot = "destroy"

on_crash = "destroy"


"xm create -c osol.install"  should bring to login prompt for "jack" ( OSOL134)
However, install detects Xen env 4.0.1 ( kernel seems to be xenified)
and immediately drops to prompt for maintenance or CTRL+D to escape.

This shows that boot_archive (OI 147)  doesn't contain xen frontend drivers ( my guess)
and (or) something else is going wrong.  I still guess boot_archive ( like initrd.gz on Linux) is not xenified on OI 147.

If you can speak to Mark, resolving issue would not take long. He was responsible
for OSOL at Linux Dom0 installs in better times.

Boris.


 

--- On Fri, 9/24/10, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XEN and Crossbow
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 3:44 PM

On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:21, Boris Derzhavets wrote:

>> 2. domU (Running OpenIndiana as a PV guest) is fully supported. This 
> code is being maintained by Oracle and will continue to work.
> 
> Build 147 fails to run standard OSOL 134 procedure of installation as Xen DomU.
> We have been tracking this feature since Nevada build 75A.

Hi Boris,

Could you clarify what you mean?

We're running oi_147 successfully in our xVM dom0 environment. However these were hosts upgraded from snv_134.

Regards,

Alasdair
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