[Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot

[Roy Golan]

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 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])
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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