[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris10 Guest on illumos KVM

Carsten Grzemba grzemba at contac-dt.de
Mon Aug 31 08:35:35 UTC 2015


Yes, I have to assign more than 2GB of RAM than it seems to work with option -no-kvm-irqchip

Am 28.08.15 13:10 schrieb Jonathan Adams  <t12nslookup at gmail.com>: 
> 
> I had trouble in the past with KVMs, but most of that was due to memory
> restrictions ... do you have loads of swap space (you need more than the
> amount of memory you are allocating to the KVM) and I had loads of trouble
> granting more than half of the physical memory in the box ...
> 
> what exact error are you getting?
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 28 August 2015 at 11:55, Nikolam <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > One needs Intel with EPT for illumos KVM (there is unofficial KVM for AMD/
> > Intel VT-X).
> > Are you on OI /dev or Hipster?
> > You can try Virtualbox instead I used it till recently, there are scripts
> > for VBox install/uninstall now, see provious posts..
> > Or try setting up Solaris 10 Branded zone (haven't tried it yet).
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Carsten Grzemba <grzemba at contac-dt.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > has anyone succesfull installed Solaris10 as Illumos KVM guest? For me it
> > > works only with -no-kvm option wich is verry slow.
> > > I use latest OI hipster, pkg://
> > > openindiana.org/entire at 0.5.11-2015.0.1.1:20150331T180757Z.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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