Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

2012-07-20 Thread John Garbutt
@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Narayan Desai Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:28 PM To: Joshua Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM That is worth a shot. I haven't played

Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

2012-07-18 Thread Sean Dague
My experience is that solaris is incredibly fickle on kvm. I think one of the issues had to do with the boot screen and how it uses graphics and framebuffer. -Sean On 07/17/2012 08:55 PM, Narayan Desai wrote: I suspect that you need the right solaris (more likely illumos) bits to get

Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

2012-07-18 Thread Joshua
I have tried console=text and still fail as well as safe boot. I even tried doing kvm-ubuntu + virtual box- solaris vm. But have had trouble pass VT-x to virualbox on kvm. Its strange to me that both qemu and kvm both fail. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sean Dague

Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

2012-07-18 Thread Michael March
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? On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Narayan Desai narayan.de...@gmail.comwrote: I was curious, so I asked on #illumos today. Apparently, the

Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

2012-07-18 Thread Narayan Desai
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

Re: [Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

2012-07-17 Thread Narayan Desai
I suspect that you need the right solaris (more likely illumos) bits to get guest side support for virtio. We tried a while ago and the default openindiana at the time didn't work. -nld On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Joshua j...@root.bz wrote: I have tried with both KVM and qemu. Solaris