[OpenIndiana-discuss] xVM and Oi

[Butch Whitby]

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>     1. Re: OI boot problem (Matt Connolly)
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> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:56:10 +1000
> From: Matt Connolly<matt.connolly.au at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem
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> On 23/03/2011, at 20:28, GUY WOOLLEY<guy.woolley at btinternet.com>  wrote:
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>> Thanks Matt - you've put your finger on the problem. I have no /a/boot/grub !
>>
>> I'd noticed that the live USB image has /boot/grub with the entries you identify. I wasn't sure what to make of that.
>>
>> I don't really get your line
>>
>> "exchanging PATH for the mount path to what was the active boot environment, not just the root of the pool."
> I meant PATH is where you've mounted you desired boot environment, which appears to be /a. I wasn't sure if you'd simply mounted the 'rpool' into /a or 'rpool/ROOT/be-name'.
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>> what was the active boot environment ? How do I discover that ?
> I'm no expert on the internals of the beadm tool. Or even if it can mount boot environments from another pool.
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> But if you 'zfs list' you should see rpool/ROOT/opensolaris (or similar, that's what my original one was called, and look for the files in there.
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> In any case, can't you run the 'installgrub' command sourcing the stage1 and stage2 files from the live USB mount and install them onto your drive??
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> Matt.
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>> Cheers
>>
>> Guy
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> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:23 +0200
> From: Gabriel de la Cruz<gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com>
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> Hello,
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> The search I have done so far gave me no answer, just to make sure
> that I am not missing something important, I would like to ask you
> some general questions about xVM and oi.
>
> I have a server running Opensolaris and xVM, will it be able upgrade
> to the first stable release of OI?  It looks like the xVM project is
> fading away... is this setup running into a dead-end? Should I take
> the machine down and reconsider the whole setup now that I can? Will
> the new Xen based products made by Oracle fit into OI?
>
> Thank you guys, sorry for disturbing,
> All the best.
> Gabriel
>
> "Asking the Oracle about the future proved to be useless, he just
> doesn't want to say".
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According to Harry Foxwell, the xVM project was dropped because Oracle 
already had a virtualization "package" available.  Personally I think 
that they should have moved forward with xVM but it was scrapped 
officially (more or less) as of build 134(a?) I believe.

-- 
Butch