[Xen-users] Solaris domU dies at boot

[Michael Jinks <mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, List.

I've been trying for weeks to get a Solaris domU running on my Linux
dom0.  I've tried example configs from numerous sources; current effort
is pasted below.  (Largely cribbed from
http://wiki.tardis.ed.ac.uk/index.php/OpenSolaris_Xen_domU).

Currently I'm using Xen 3.2.1 on Linux (Gentoo), kernel version 2.6.21.

The domU is trying to boot an ISO of the 2008/05 release of OpenSolaris.
I've copied i86xpv/kernel/amd64 kernel and /boot/x86.microroot from the
OpenSolaris ISO into the locations listed in my config file, and the
"extra" line is copied verbatim from the source linked above.

When I try to boot with this configuration, 'xm create' starts the
domain, but it immediately crashes.  I don't get any qemu-dm log file
for the domain, and I don't know enough about the contents of xend.log
or domain-builder-ng.log to be able to tell if there's anything nasty
being reported there, though nothing jumps out at me as obviously wrong.

Any suggestions for further debugging?

Thanks,
--Michael

[begin xm config file]

import os, re

name = "dumb"
memory = "2048"
vcpus = "2"
disk = [ 'file:/xen/isos/opensolaris200805.iso,6:cdrom,r', 
'phy:/dev/mapper/pile-dumb.solaris.root,0,w', 
'phy:/dev/mapper/pile-dumb.solaris.swap,1,w' ]
vif = [ '' ]

kernel = '/xen/boot/os200805/amd64/unix'
ramdisk = '/xen/boot/os200805/x86.microroot'
extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix - nowin -B install_media=cdrom'

vfb = [ 'type=vnc, vnclisten=0.0.0.0, vncpasswd=l3m0n' ]
# eventually i'll need to pass a PCI device to this domain
# pci = ['80:09.0']

on_shutdown = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'destroy'
on_crash = 'destroy'

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