Hi Saurabh,
I think Xen 3.0.4 (which is what is in Solaris now) only runs 32bit HVM
guests. I think this is being worked on for the next integration
Chris
Saurabh Misra wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I wanted to boot s10 HVM in 64-bit mode but it always boots in 32-bit
> mode. Is there a special grub entry to boot s10 HVM domU in 64-bit mode?
> Or is it HVM loader?
>
> The grub entry is like this
>
> title Solaris 10 5/08 s10x_u5wos_01 X86
> kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
> module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
>
> s10.py file is as follows :-
>
> import os, re
> arch = os.uname()[4]
> if re.search('64', arch):
> arch_libdir = 'lib64'
> else:
> arch_libdir = 'lib'
>
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> builder='hvm'
> memory = 2048
> shadow_memory = 8
> name = "S10U5HVM"
> vcpus=1
> vif = [ 'bridge=nge1, ip=10.5.63.98' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/xVM/s10/mydisk.raw,hdc,w']
> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> on_reboot = 'destroy'
> on_crash = 'preserve'
> device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> boot='cd'
> sdl=0
> vnc=1
> vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
> vncconsole=1
> vncpasswd='abc'
> nographic=0
> stdvga=0
> serial='null'
>
>
> And also the performance is not great when I boot s10 with more than one
> VCPU. Any recent fixes which went in dom0 or hypervisor? I'm using
> snv_80 build for dom0.
>
> # xm info
> xen_major : 3
> xen_minor : 0
> xen_extra : .4-1-xvm
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> /Saurabh
> http://blogs.sun.com/saurabh_mishra
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