Thursday, September 20, 2007


Install Xen 3.1 Solaris domU (64 bit) under CentOS 5 dom0 (64 bit)



In general installation bellow went the same way as [1]. However, several things
happened different from described in [1].
1. Installation didn't hang all way through.
2. To preserve "bootadm update-archive -R /a" work I had to force unmount /a


Original profile to create Solaris DomU :-








Start Solaris domU creating :-



# xm create -c OpenSol66Xen.cfg










It's important to select "Manual Reboot" :-








Full install has been selected:-








Installer never hanged during package installation phase,compare with [1] :-








Now drop to shell :-








Fixing problem with the OpenSolaris kernel not generating checksums for TCP and UDP packets.


Adding "set xnf:xnf_cksum_offload = 0" to /a/etc/system :-








Run "bootadm update-archive -R /a" and copy boot_archive to dom0 :-








Check file boot_archive in dom0:-








Unmount /a to be able shutdown Solaris domU :-








Now shutdown Solaris domU :-






Runtime profile for Solaris domU:-








Starting up Solaris PVM :-



# xm create -c OpenSol66Xen.cfg










SSH connection to Solaris domU :-








Install Xen 3.1 Solaris DomU (64 bit) at Debian Etch Dom0 (64 bit)


References
1.OpenSolaris Xen domU
2Xen 3.1 Binary installation on CentOS 5.0 & ASUS P5B Deluxe