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Contents 1 OS 1.1 Disk Layout 1.2 pkgs 1.3 xVM

OS

Operating system is OpenSolaris 2008.05.

Disk Layout

All disks fdisk partitioned into two pieces:

• Parition 1 - 93GB
• Partition 2 - 824GB.

zpool create -f narf \
   raidz c5t0d0p2 c5t1d0p2 c5t2d0p2 c5t3d0p2 c5t4d0p2 c5t5d0p2 \
   raidz c5t2d0p1 c5t3d0p1 c5t4d0p1 c5t5d0p1

This gives us 4.3TB of usable space. Performance seems decent. Approximately 200MB/s to and from disk.

pkgs

I've added in the sunfreeware and blastwave repositories:

 # pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 sunfreeware
 # pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:10000 blastwave
 # pkg authority -H
   blastwave                           http://blastwave.network.com:10000/
   sunfreeware                         http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000/
   opensolaris.org (preferred)         http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/

xVM

dom0 is our OpenSolaris 2008.05 system.

I installed it using the instructions at Getting xVM to work in OpenSolaris 2008.05:

Install the xVM Packages:

# pkg install SUNWxvmhvm  SUNWvirtinst  SUNWlibvirt SUNWurlgrabber

Copy the real menu.lst into /boot/grub so bootadm will find it.

# cp /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub

Have bootadm set up menu.lst to include the Xen stuff, then copy it into the correct location.

# bootadm -m upgrade ; mv /boot/grub/menu.lst /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst

Link the menu.lsts together so we don't have to worry about it anymore.

# ln -s /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst

Edit the menu.lst, setting our default boot option to "1" (xVM), and fixing the xVM entry so it'll actually work:

title Solaris xVM
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
kernel$ /boot/$ISADIR/xen.gz
module$ /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

(We have to add the bootfs line, and the "-B $ZFS-BOOTFS" to the module there..)

Now "init 6" to boot into an xvm enabled kernel, then enable all the Xen thingies:

svcadm enable store
svcadm enable xend
svcadm enable console
svcadm enable domains

Run "xm list" to see if you're good.

Download a pre-built linux-xen kernel from xen.org 3.1 tarballs

Untar it and stick vmlinuz-xen in /boot/

Download an os image from [jailtime.org Jailtime].