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 <j...@root.bz> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp