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[Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx>]

That is worth a shot. I haven't played with Xen personally, so I don't
know what would be involved, but iirc there was a solaris xen port.
 -nld

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Joshua <josh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would xen as the hypervisor be able to boot the solaris vm?
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> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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