On 05/19/09 16:34, Ethan Quach wrote: > Sue, > >> Conclusion: Until then, look for disk with 12 GB. If not available, >> look for disk with 4 GB. >> This should satisfy xvm team, when installing virtual machines. > > > Does 4GB really satisfy it? I've been installing AI in pv guests and > the resultant install is over 5GB. The pkg download cache, swap, > and dump constitute 2GB of that however.
I believe that swap and dump probably pushed it over. But as Dave mentioned, we need to get real numbers from ips. >> Discussion about search order possibilities: >> - disk size in descending order >> - device id (alphanumeric) >> - could we look at bios boot disk first? > > > I think bios boot disk should be the preference if we've got > multiple disks that pass all other requirements. > >> What about changing default manifest to include commented out >> keywords/tags that give options to user? >> One tag could be the default and remain uncommented. When service was >> created, we would output something >> to user to say that disk selection will be based on <uncommented tag>. > > > What about every time a user adds a custom manifest to a service; > would the same message come out for that operation? I'm not > sure how useful this would really be for either case. There just > seem to be too many other inherent calculations going on in the > decision making process for this one piece of information to be > usefule. > > Choices might be: > unformatted disk > largest disk > boot disk > device name > volume name > > > Have you considered a "don't touch" tag? Interesting idea. Sort of like preserve, for a disk. >> Currently, we expect x86 disk to have solaris2 partition or we fail. > > > We do? I've been doing tons of PV guest installs where theres > no existing Solaris2 fdisk partition, and it creates one. Does it > only fail in certain cases? These disks are completely blank. I'm going to let William address this one. Sue > thanks, > -ethan > > > > Susan Sohn wrote: >> The notes from today's meeting are at: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ai_client_redesign_mtg_0519.txt >> >> >> >> In tomorrow's meeting, we want to finalize a proposed design for >> default disk selection, discuss >> specified disk selection, and get an intro from Jean on progress >> reporting. >> >> Thanks, >> Sue >> >> >> On 05/18/09 09:02, Susan Sohn wrote: >>> There will be meetings on Tue, Wed, and Thu this week to discuss >>> client redesign. >>> The topic for tomorrow's meeting will be disk selection (default and >>> specified) and >>> slice partitioning. William and Jean's presence is requested, anyone >>> else is welcome. >>> >>> Here are the meeting details: >>> >>> Client redesign meetings: >>> Tue, Wed, Thu 5/19,20,21 >>> 8m PT/9am MT/5pm Prague >>> >>> USA Toll-Free: 866-839-8145 >>> Caller Paid (Intl): 215-446-3660 >>> Participant Code: 9041875 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sue >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
