OpenSolaris on Xen [LWN.net]

OpenSolaris on Xen

Posted Feb 15, 2006 4:14 UTC (Wed) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378)
In reply to: OpenSolaris on Xen by bradfitz
Parent article: OpenSolaris on Xen

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)

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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.