Hi there, I'm making progress with AI xVM guests (having gotten to the bottom of the weird networking problems I was seeing, logged 6850)
I'm wondering about the best way to allow users configure guests for AI installation. At the moment, having applied the workaround for 6850, I've got the following working: # virt-install -n ai --ram=1024 -f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/guests/ai_guest -l http://10.0.0.1:5555/server/images/osol-0906-106a-ai-x86 --nographics --cpus=1 --autocf=x86_install_service which creates a PV guest called "ai", which will then bootstrap itself from 10.0.0.1, booting with "-B xpv-hcp=dhcp,network-interface=xnf0", and lookup the x86_install_service. I was also going to allow http urls to the --autocf option, allowing people to specify exactly where their preferred install service resided. I'm wondering though, is there support to pass guest networking configuration directly via kernel boot options[1] or are we strongly reliant on obtaining this information from the ai_manifest via the specified or discovered install service webserver? For Jumpstart - we could pass sysidcfg files directly via the --autocf virt-install option, which resulted in "-B host-ip=bla,router-ip=foo,boot-mac=baz" which would then get configured in the installed system. cheers, tim [1] and whether AI will actually configure any of these on the installed OS? I know we should still be able to do everything in PSARC 2007/155, but that would only configure the network inside the miniroot that's running the installation program, not resultant installed guest.
