So, here i am. Trying to setup a Solaris xVM hypervisor….
Installed OpenSolaris using the ‘install’ icon on the desktop of the livecd.
According to the package manager, SUNWxvmdom, SUNWxvmipa and SUNWxvmpv were already installed, so i downloaded the rest (available via the package repository from opensolaris.org): SUNWvirtinst, SUNWvirt-manager and SUNWxvm. Those 3 were prox. 8 Mb in size.
Using this pdf, i verified that the xVM Server packages exists on the machine and the libvirt tools were present.
pouwiel@behemoth:~$ cat /etc/release
OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 19 November 2008
pouwiel@behemoth:~$ pkginfo|grep xvm system SUNWxvmdomr Hypervisor Domain Tools (Root) system SUNWxvmdomu Hypervisor Domain Tools (Usr) system SUNWxvmh Hypervisor Header Files system SUNWxvmhvm Hypervisor HVM system SUNWxvmipar xVM PV IP address agent (Root) system SUNWxvmipau xVM PV IP address agent (Usr) system SUNWxvmpv xVM Paravirtualized Drivers system SUNWxvmr Hypervisor (Root) system SUNWxvmu Hypervisor (Usr) pouwiel@behemoth:~$ pkginfo|grep libvirt system SUNWlibvirt Libvirt (Usr) system SUNWlibvirtr Libvirt (Root) pouwiel@behemoth:~$ pkginfo|grep virtinst system SUNWvirtinst virt-install pouwiel@behemoth:~$ pkginfo|grep grabber system SUNWurlgrabber urlgrabber
So far so good.
Now it’s time to verify xVM is part of the boot-menu:
pouwiel@behemoth:~$ bootadm list-menu The location for the active GRUB menu is: /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 30 0 OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 1 OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 text boot
Alas, let’s try the upgrade then…
pouwiel@behemoth:~$ bootadm -m upgrade bootadm: you must be root to run this command pouwiel@behemoth:~$ su Password: pouwiel@behemoth:~# bootadm -m upgrade bootadm: failed to determine fdisk partition: rpool/ROOT/opensolaris bootadm: Cannot find GRUB signature for /
Nope, no luck there.
So i searched for the error and got LOTS of hits, like this one (could be useful for someone!) and eventually this one.
I manually alterd my grub menu, like so:
pfexec gedit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst add: title ... xVM findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) kernel$ /boot/$ISADIR/xen.gz module$ /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1
And rebooted.
And now it looks like this:
pouwiel@behemoth:~# bootadm list-menu The location for the active GRUB menu is: /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst default 2 timeout 30 0 OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 1 OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 text boot 2 ... xVM
Sadly, the services didn’t start automatically, so i started them like so:
pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcs|grep xvm disabled 15:10:05 svc:/system/xvm/ipagent:default online 15:10:05 svc:/system/xvm/vnc-config:default pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcadm enable store pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcadm enable xend pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcadm enable console pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcadm enable domains pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcadm enable virtd pouwiel@behemoth:~# svcs | grep xvm disabled 15:10:05 svc:/system/xvm/ipagent:default online 15:10:05 svc:/system/xvm/vnc-config:default online 15:13:32 svc:/system/xvm/store:default online 15:13:40 svc:/system/xvm/xend:default online 15:13:48 svc:/system/xvm/console:default online 15:13:58 svc:/system/xvm/domains:default online 15:14:08 svc:/system/xvm/virtd:default
Now back to the pdf from Sun on page 4, i just entered paragraph Post-Installation Configuration. With step 1, essentially covered above, we go on to step 2….
Next up is the network configuration, i followed step 2, here are the results:
pouwiel@behemoth:~# dladm show-link LINK CLASS MTU STATE OVER rge0 phys 1500 up -- rge1 phys 1500 up -- pouwiel@behemoth:~# svccfg -s xvm/xend listprop config/default-nic config/default-nic astring pouwiel@behemoth:~# dladm show-link LINK CLASS MTU STATE OVER rge0 phys 1500 up -- rge1 phys 1500 up -- pouwiel@behemoth:~# svccfg -s xvm/xend listprop config/default-nic config/default-nic astring