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[Joshua <josh@xxxxxxx>]

Would xen as the hypervisor be able to boot the solaris vm?

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Joshua <josh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the updates, it hurts to hear that solaris is not support. I
> was hoping I could nest the vm, but even that has been removed as a
> feature. Anyone have any workarounds on getting solaris running within
> openstack.
>
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Michael March <mmarch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I don't follow Solaris that closely but I vaguely remember the Joyent
>> folks
>> > ported all of KVM to Solaris, right?  Or am I just missing the whole
>> point
>> > here?
>>
>> They did, and it is a fairly impressive piece of work. Their focus (as
>> a hosting provider) was running kvm virtual machines in a illumos
>> host. That support is completely separate from the guest drivers to
>> make virtio work for block and network devices. afaict, network device
>> support is complete, but block device support isn't finished yet. This
>> means you can't run illumos/solaris as a guest using kvm with virtio.
>>  -nld
>>
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