Would xen as the hypervisor be able to boot the solaris vm? On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Joshua <j...@root.bz> 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.de...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Michael March <mma...@gmail.com> 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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