Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Miles Fidelman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> All the discussions of "what's the best distribution to run Xen on" seem >> to focus on Linux. > > Probably because opensolaris is still a "newbie" in Xen world. And the > fact that it can't run out-of-the-box on many HP servers (the ones > that use smart array). Add to that the fact that you're practically > stuck with Sun's version of Xen (3.1.4, is it?), with little-to-no > chance of adopting Xen-3.3 anytime soon, surely the "seem to focus on > Linux" part makes sense.
3.3.2-pre source bits work and are available today. We are actively working on getting them tested and putback to OpenSolaris. > Then again, some people (like me) might consider all the opensolaris > goodies (zvol, dtrace, etc.) makes it worthed (at least for certain > requirements) :D > >> I've been considering running Xen on OpenSolaris, to take advantage of ZFS. >> >> Anybody have any experiences, comments, things to watch out, etc.? >> > > Lets see. Here's what's most important for me: > - watch out for command and config location differences. I got a hard > time getting domUs autostart (hint: opensoslaris don't use > /etc/xen/auto) and setting their vnc console to bind to all ip by > default (no /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp). > - watch out for bridges and vlans. Opensolaris 2008.11 uses different > mechanism compared to previous versions > - you might want to try setting refreservation=none on zvols. This > should give the same space-saving result as using sparse-file for > domU's backing storage. we did things different where we thought we could do things better. In the examples above, I believe we have a better solution. MRJ > - James Harper's widely-tested GPLPV driver for windows domU don't > work on opensolaris dom0 (yet). Sun has their own PV driver, but I'm > not sure how well it performs. _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
