You might be able to use XenServer/XCP. It's not supported as such, and I have never tried it, but these people seem to have: http://360is.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/paravirtualized-opensolaris-solaris-on.html
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Narayan Desai > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:28 PM > To: Joshua > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would xen as the hypervisor be able to boot the solaris vm? > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Joshua <[email protected]> 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 > >> <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Michael March <[email protected]> > 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 : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
