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[John Garbutt <John.Garbutt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You might be able to use XenServer/XCP.

It's not supported as such, and I have never tried it, but these people seem to have:
http://360is.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/paravirtualized-opensolaris-solaris-on.html

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Narayan Desai
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:28 PM
> To: Joshua
> Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM
> 
> 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?
> >
> >
> > 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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