Hi Chris,

thanks for your response.
I agree with your statement about ZFS, but we're trying to use Nexenta
as Xen PV Guest on an already existing Xen Cluster with external iSCSI
storage. Indeed, we _could_ use Nexenta as dom0 on each and every
machine, but this is not our target. We just want to add Nexenta to our
pool of possible domU's.

cheers,

Stephan

Chris McQuistion schrieb:
> Stephan, is there any reason you're choosing to do a Virtualized install
> of Nexenta, compared to a hardware install?  Just curious.  I've been
> messing with Nexenta for a while, but the "killer feature" for me is the
> ZFS filesystem, so running it as a virtualized machine seemed like a
> drawback, since there would be a layer between the guest and the drives.
> 
> If you must do virtualized, they do have a VMWare image available that
> you can use with VMWare.  I've tried it out this way and it seemed to
> work fine, but I don't think they had VMWare tools available for it, out
> of the box.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> Stephan Seitz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does someone know the best practice in installing Nexenta as
>> paravirtualized guest over Xen (in particular Xen3.2/Ubuntu Hardy dom0)?
>>
>> As a few of our machines lack HVM (vt-d) capabilities, we re going to
>> find a "unique" way of installing Nexenta without installing i86pc in
>> full virtualization and swap over to i86xpv.
>>
>> Are there any ways to get the /platform/i86xpv onto the installation cd?
>> We found one 1.0-RC3 which has this feature available, but eventually
>> this version has been obsoleted by 1.0.1 and upcoming 2.0.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Stephan
>>
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