Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Folks: > > I was able to install and boot Windows XP on Xen on Solaris. This was > based on the special b66 based DVD. > > I'm busy figuring out how to access the primary partition via the > /dev/rdsk/ hierarchy which would enable me to boot the natively > installed XP. >
/dev/dsk/cNdNpN where cNdN can be figured out by running format and then press CTRL+C. Or run df -h and see the device that is mounted on the root fs "/". pN refers to the primary partition numbers: p1 to p4. /dev/dsk/cNdNp0 is a device node that refers to the entire physical disk. > The only changes from the Xen documentation was the cdrom reference. > > A bit of googling, and I made the following change to the config file > disk = [ 'file:/export/home/xen/xpdisk.img,ioemu:hda,w', > 'file:/export/home/xen/winxpsp2.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r' ] > > But Xen on Solaris works just fine :) > > Once again, I'll post the real juicy details later, but for anyone who > already had the DVD and an XP ISO, go get started ! > BTW I came to know yesterday that live migration of running Xen domains are supported. A running Xen domU can be frozen for a moment and transferred en-masse to another physical box and it continues to run there. Regards, Moinak. > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
