[ovirt-users] solaris 11

[Jiri Belka]

> On 06/04/2015 05:03 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
> > On 20 May 2015, at 08:32, Koen Vanoppen wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> Little question. Is it possible to install the ovirt guest agent on a
> >> solaris11 vm?
> >> If so, how... :-)
> > it may do..something. if you have the right python some stuff could work.
> > not sure if anyone tried before, possibly not:)
> Well the biggest question is if there are  VirtIO Char Device drivers to
> support the VirtIO Channel devices.
> If not, it's not supported this is how it is right now for *BSD system,
> no ports of the drivers for those systems, therefore the guest agent
> wouldn't work at this point.

As stated, you won't probably have virtio-serial device support.
Problem is you need "dynamic" device tree in your guest OS, which is
what (Open)BSD doesn't have. virtio-channels are defined based on their
names, qemu-kvm args, and then processed by OS and constructed inside /dev
(at least Linux, Windows do that this way).

Maybe you can try to override virtio-serial with normal serial via
a vdsm hook and then to have guest agent use serial port path.

I haven't tested this but something similar was working for me with qemu
guest agent.

Try to raise virtio-serial in smartos community, they somehow support
SPICE and having virtio-serial brings many new features - usbredir,
SPICE autoresolution, clipboard sharing, shared folders...

j.