[Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/19/2013 02:37 AM, Roy Golan wrote:
> 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.

well, its is always required for that OS type, i don't want users to 
have to know what they need to do.
though, we do need to add ability to specify cpu model at per VM level, 
so worth thinking more about this one.
maybe a combination: allow to change it at vm level, but be able to 
recommend the default at osinfo.
but i admit I really don't like doing this one in osinfo, since its only 
covering for a bug in kvm, and would expose a non-native (qemu64) cpu 
model to the user.

>
> 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?)

just extra flags. see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784836

>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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