[Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 02:39 -0500, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 12/16/2013 05:47 AM, René Koch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > -----Original message-----
> >> From:Sander Grendelman <sander at grendelman.com>
> >> Sent: Monday 16th December 2013 11:00
> >> To: Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl>
> >> Cc: users at 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 at xs4all.nl> 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])


Sure, can send you a patch, but have some questions:

If I understand the osinfo properties file correctly I can limit hard
disk and nics to specific value, right?

So e.g. the following setting
    os.solaris.devices.network.value =  rtl8139, e1000
would mean that you can only choose RTL8130 and e1000 NICs and no VirtIO
in new nic dialog, right?

Btw, what's the value for IDE disks? Can't find an example in oVirt 3.3
default osinfo file.

Yes, the hook is required, otherwise no network traffic passes the
bridge...



> 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
> >>>
> >>>
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