OpenSolaris 2008.11 guest domain on a Linux dom0

Posted by dba477 on Dec 12, 2008 7:08 PM EDT
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The most recent "Howto" mentioned in headline has been published about one week or latter then another one Installing Opensolaris 2008.11 RC2 on a Linux (RedHat/Centos) dom0

I believe , that second "howto" gives clear and nice explanation of basic ZFS concepts, explaining how to obtain ZFS-ID for boot environment and create "extra" for Solaris PV guests at Xen Linux Dom0, no matter is it SNV DomU or OSOL DomU with ZFS image. The first one just instructs you to put certain magic number in extra line and advertises future intend :- Yes, we're aware this is rather over-complicated. We're trying to find the time to send our changes to virt-install upstream, as well as ZFS support. Eventually this will make it much easier to use a Linux dom0.

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