I have a Solaris 11.1 system running on a nice piece of hardware that I’d like to make better use of. I would like to virtualize it under ovirt. I created an ovirt guest using the RHEL 64 bit template. I attached the Solaris 11.1 ISO and booted. As soon as the Solaris banner is displayed, poof, kernel panic. Of course every whizzes by so fast I have no chance of getting a screen shot. Has anyone been successful in boot Solaris 11.1 under ovirt? Should I have picked a different template? _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Blaster wrote: > > I have a Solaris 11.1 system running on a nice piece of hardware that I’d > like to make better use of. I would like to virtualize it under ovirt. > > I created an ovirt guest using the RHEL 64 bit template. I attached the > Solaris 11.1 ISO and booted. As soon as the Solaris banner is displayed, > poof, kernel panic. > > Of course every whizzes by so fast I have no chance of getting a screen > shot. > > Has anyone been successful in boot Solaris 11.1 under ovirt? Should I > have picked a different template? > > I did a search through my message folder and found the thread. It was about solaris10 and networking didn't work. So maybe this is different or not. Could you test if the same iso can be booted using virt-manager or kvm/qemu directly? Joop _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

I suggest to use the following settings for your Solaris guest: * Operating System: Other * nic1: rtl8139 * Disk1: IDE Booting from the DVD ISO works fine for Sol 10 and 11 with these settings.

I used this image for installing Solaris 11: sol-11_1-text-x86.iso, which is the Solaris 11.1 text based installer... Works fine for me on my oVirt 3.3 setup - installed Solaris 11.1 right now - (did also work fine in oVirt 3.2 and on a RHEL 6 server with plain KVM)...

On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 23:20 -0600, Blaster wrote: > On 12/17/2013 9:18 AM, René Koch (ovido) wrote: > Well, I'm running 3.3.1 but I had the same problem with 3.3. Wonder if > it's my Athlon X4 640 CPU? > Any known issues with AMD CPUs?

On my workstation with old AMD X4 605e CPU I also get a bunch of panic messages when trying to boot from the Solaris ISO. Tried it with virt-manager with OS family Solaris under Fedora 19. It seems that Solaris has issues with KVM and AMD CPUs. Sadly I don't have enough time to investigate this further :(

On 12/18/2013 7:44 AM, Sander Grendelman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, René Koch (ovido) <r.koch(a)ovido.at&gt; > wrote: > > Bummer..Thanks for taking the time to validate that..So if there's a problem with Solaris, I wonder what other issues are lurking with AMD CPUs? It's tough to ignore the prices of the 8core AMD FX CPUs. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

On 12/16/2013 05:47 AM, René Koch wrote: > Hi, > > -----Original message----- >> From:Sander Grendelman <sander(a)grendelman.com&gt; >> Sent: Monday 16th December 2013 11:00 >> To: Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; >> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org >> Subject: Re: [Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot >> >> There's also a thread about Solaris 11 here: >> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/016168.html >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; wrote: >>> Blaster wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a Solaris 11.1 system running on a nice piece of hardware that I’d >>>> like to make better use of. I would like to virtualize it under ovirt. >>>> >>>> I created an ovirt guest using the RHEL 64 bit template. I attached the >>>> Solaris 11.1 ISO and booted. As soon as the Solaris banner is displayed, >>>> poof, kernel panic. > > I suggest to use the following settings for your Solaris guest: > * Operating System: Other > * nic1: rtl8139 > * Disk1: IDE > > Booting from the DVD ISO works fine for Sol 10 and 11 with these settings. > >>>> >>>> Of course every whizzes by so fast I have no chance of getting a screen >>>> shot. >>>> >>>> Has anyone been successful in boot Solaris 11.1 under ovirt? Should I >>>> have picked a different template? > > In my oVirt setup (3.3 now, but worked on 3.2, too) there are Solaris 10 and 11 vms running. > See the specs above. > > I had some issues with network traffic, which can be solved with a host hook (99_fix_solaris): > https://github.com/ovido/ovirt-stuff/tree/master/hooks > > Please let me know if this fixes your issues... > > > Regards, > René René - maybe a patch to add solaris to osinfo config file with these limitations (hmm, it would still need the hook, which is a shame[1])

Joop - just a btw - not sure why you start from a rhel64 template, rather than start from blank + add disk, then boot from iso. (since there is no benefit to either doing COW of solaris over the rhel64 template, nor to cloning it) [1] michal/roy - thoughts about allowing to specify at osinfo level extra flags or override the cpu model altogether (iirc, windows guest would need this as well for new windows specific flags going forward). > > > >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I did a search through my message folder and found the thread. It was about >>> solaris10 and networking didn't work. So maybe this is different or not. >>> Could you test if the same iso can be booted using virt-manager or kvm/qemu >>> directly? >>> >>> Joop >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >

On 17/12/13 09:39 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 12/16/2013 05:47 AM, René Koch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> -----Original message----- >>> From:Sander Grendelman <sander(a)grendelman.com&gt; >>> Sent: Monday 16th December 2013 11:00 >>> To: Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; >>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org >>> Subject: Re: [Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot >>> >>> There's also a thread about Solaris 11 here: >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/016168.html >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; wrote: >>>> Blaster wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have a Solaris 11.1 system running on a nice piece of hardware >>>>> that I’d >>>>> like to make better use of. I would like to virtualize it under >>>>> ovirt. >>>>> >>>>> I created an ovirt guest using the RHEL 64 bit template. I >>>>> attached the >>>>> Solaris 11.1 ISO and booted. As soon as the Solaris banner is >>>>> displayed, >>>>> poof, kernel panic. >> >> I suggest to use the following settings for your Solaris guest: >> * Operating System: Other >> * nic1: rtl8139 >> * Disk1: IDE >> >> Booting from the DVD ISO works fine for Sol 10 and 11 with these >> settings. >> >>>>> >>>>> Of course every whizzes by so fast I have no chance of getting a >>>>> screen >>>>> shot. >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone been successful in boot Solaris 11.1 under ovirt? Should I >>>>> have picked a different template? >> >> In my oVirt setup (3.3 now, but worked on 3.2, too) there are Solaris >> 10 and 11 vms running. >> See the specs above. >> >> I had some issues with network traffic, which can be solved with a >> host hook (99_fix_solaris): >> https://github.com/ovido/ovirt-stuff/tree/master/hooks >> >> Please let me know if this fixes your issues... >> >> >> Regards, >> René > > René - maybe a patch to add solaris to osinfo config file with these > limitations (hmm, it would still need the hook, which is a shame[1]) > Joop - just a btw - not sure why you start from a rhel64 template, > rather than start from blank + add disk, then boot from iso. > (since there is no benefit to either doing COW of solaris over the > rhel64 template, nor to cloning it) > > [1] michal/roy - thoughts about allowing to specify at osinfo level > extra flags or override the cpu model altogether (iirc, windows guest > would need this as well for new windows specific flags going forward). extra flags at osinfo sounds right but overriding the whole model I think is more appropriate at the VM level configuration so we can actually validate it with the cluster capabilities.

os.${id}.devices.cpu.extraFlags Itamar - I didn't get if windows would have to have its cpu overridden or just the extra hyperV flag? (btw what's this flag name?)

> >> >> >> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I did a search through my message folder and found the thread. It >>>> was about >>>> solaris10 and networking didn't work. So maybe this is different or >>>> not. >>>> Could you test if the same iso can be booted using virt-manager or >>>> kvm/qemu >>>> directly? >>>> >>>> Joop >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >