OpenSolaris on Xen [LWN.net]

Tim Marsland introduces OpenSolaris on Xen in his weblog. "We wanted to start the conversation with working code. So we have a snapshot of our development tree for OpenSolaris on Xen, synced up with Nevada build 31. That code snapshot should be able to boot and run on all the hardware that build 31 can today, plus it can boot as a diskless unprivileged domain on Xen 3.0. While we were in our final approach to this release, we got live migration to work too, which is one of the key features we've been working on." (Thanks to Eric Boutilier)

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OpenSolaris on Xen

Posted Feb 15, 2006 1:11 UTC (Wed) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378) [Link]

This is great. Last time I tried to play with OpenSolaris I had no end of hardware compatability problems.

Now, with OpenSolaris in a domU and Linux as the dom0, OpenSolaris just gained wide hardware support.

OpenSolaris on Xen

Posted Feb 15, 2006 4:14 UTC (Wed) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378) [Link]

I got ahead of myself. From here:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/howto/create-osox...

> In this first release, there is no support for virtual disk devices
> in OpenSolaris domU.....

But it does look like Solaris 10 has capable iSCSI initiator, so running an iSCSI target on the dom0/
wherever is possible (though not as fast as Xen's event channels for its virtual disk/net devices)

OpenSolaris on Xen

Posted Feb 15, 2006 6:42 UTC (Wed) by peterhoeg (subscriber, #4944) [Link]

The easiest solution is to simply use a NFS root.

OpenSolaris on Xen

Posted Feb 15, 2006 7:24 UTC (Wed) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378) [Link]

Not if the thing I want to play with is ZFS.