On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Dave Miner wrote: > Kevin Fox wrote: >> We understand Indiana has a hard requirement to be tailored down >> to fit on a CD media. >> We will be deploying a Solaris router appliance project in the >> next few weeks that uses >> Quagga with Zones as well as a Webmin interface that provides >> initial Live media configuration >> (see http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vnm/VirtualRouter/). >> Up until this point we have been using xVM as a prototyping >> environment, and have recently >> setup an augmented Indiana release with all our components so we >> can leverage the Live >> media environment as well as the gui-install for instantiating >> the trial configuration on a local >> drive. Cool stuff :-) >> Unfortunately, xVM support is not available in Indiana, obviously >> pruned because of space >> requirements. This is meant to be a router development kit, so >> creating separate domains that >> can feed a router domain for testing/debugging/prototyping >> without having to locate/install >> other isolated hardware is very important. > > Actually, it wasn't necessarily a space issue, it was more that we > needed to settle on a package list earlier and didn't have time to > re-evaluate it with xVM. It might actually fit, have you tried it? > We'd be interested in the results since that's something we do have > to look into before too long.
Interesting ... It may fit without our additional components, but we've managed to eliminate just about every remaining kilobyte of headroom so co-existence would be difficult without eliminating other Indiana components. If there's a short-list of questionable packages in your package list I'd be very interested in knowing what those candidates might be. In any case, we'll take a hard look at what's there and let you know if we can find a decent compromise, at least for our application .... >> To that end, we are considering looking into adding the pava- >> virtualized xVM modules into the >> Indiana image, so will probably need to move to DVD media to >> accommodate the necessary space >> requirements. >> Question: Are there any known "technical" problems with moving >> Indiana to DVD? > > No, shouldn't be any issues; the live CD work is based off the > OpenSolaris Live Media project, which was all DVD's. Cool ... that's what our assumption was, but it seemed prudent to get an opinion from someone closer to the distribution. Much appreciated! Thanks Dave Kev > > Dave
