Re: [Xen-users] Installer hanging HVM Solaris 11 or OpenIndiana 151a

[David Erickson <halcyon1981@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the pointers Roger, the main reason is because I need to do
PCI pass thru of my SAS HBA and it isn't clear to me that Solaris has
the appropriate support for pass through with PV drivers.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Erickson wrote:
>> Hi-
>> I'm wondering if anyone has had success installing Solaris 11 or
>> OpenIndiana 151a on an HVM VM?
>
> Why are you trying to use HVM? From what I've read both Solaris 11 [1]
> and OpenIndiana [2] have PV support. I've never tried it though, so I
> have no idea in what shape is the Solaris/OI PV support. You could also
> try to use HVM PV if you are interested in using HVM for some reason.
>
> [1]
> http://www.gnulinux.mu/2010/11/15/oracle-solaris-11-express-you-may-not-use-the-programs-for-your-own-internal-business-purposes/#comment-51
> [2] http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Creating+OpenIndiana+EC2+image
>
>> I'm not doing anything fancy, but as
>> soon as the kernel starts to load it just hangs on "Probing for device
>> nodes ..." (or resets when I try to pass through my m1015 HBA).  I've
>> tried both the live and text only installers for Solaris, no
>> difference.  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, with Xen 4.1.2.  Here is my
>> config file:
>>
>> kernel="/usr/lib/xen-4.1/boot/hvmloader"
>> builder='hvm'
>> memory = 4096
>> vcpus=4
>> name = "solaris"
>> vif = ['bridge=xenbr0']
>> disk = 
>> ['phy:/dev/xen/solaris,hda,w','file:/home/user/sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
>> device_model = 'qemu-dm'
>> boot="d"
>> serial='pty'
>> vnc=1
>> vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
>> vncdisplay=1
>> vncpasswd=""
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
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