Cymen's Blog » Open Solaris http://blog.cymen.org Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:53:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Xen with Debian Dom0 and Open Solaris DomU (Guest) http://blog.cymen.org/2009/06/07/xen-with-debian-dom0-and-open-solaris-domu-guest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xen-with-debian-dom0-and-open-solaris-domu-guest http://blog.cymen.org/2009/06/07/xen-with-debian-dom0-and-open-solaris-domu-guest/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:35:40 +0000 Cymen http://blog.cymen.org/?p=40 Download “osol-0906-x86.iso” and mount it using loopback (mount -o loop -t iso9660 /root/osol-0906-x86.iso /tmp/MOUNT_POINT). Copy off two files required for the install. One site suggested /usr/lib/xen-solaris:

mkdir /usr/lib/xen-solaris
cp /tmp/MOUNT_POINT//mnt/tmp/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix /usr/lib/xen-solaris/unix-0906
cp /mnt/MOUNT_POINT/boot/x86.microroot /usr/lib/xen-solaris/x86.microroot-0906

The Xen DomU configuration:

name = 'open-solaris'
memory = '512'
disk = [ 'file:/root/osol-0906-x86.iso,6:cdrom,r', 'phy:/dev/thor/open-solaris,xvda,w' ]
vif = [ '' ]

kernel = '/usr/lib/xen-solaris/unix-0906'
ramdisk = '/usr/lib/xen-solaris/x86.microroot-0906'

on_shutdown = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'destroy'
on_crash = 'destroy'
extra = '/platform/i86xpv/kernel/unix - nowin -B install_media=cdrom'

Then kick off the VM:

xm create -c open-solaris.cfg

Now Open Solaris should boot up. These accounts are preconfigured:
Username: jack
Password: jack
Root password: opensolaris

The installer is GUI-only. The installer appears to kick off a vnc instance (or Xen does, haven’t looked into who/what/where but xenstore has the VNC password but the guest has the vnc process?). To get the VNC password:

xenstore-ls|grep password

To get the IP of Open Solaris:

ifconfig -a

Now you can VNC to the IP address, use the VNC password and kick off the install.

Sites referenced:

http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/index.php/OpenSolaris_Xen_domU
http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/opensolaris_2008_11_as_a
http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/opensolaris_2008_11_guest_domain

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