Hi Sundar, Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > 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 >> >> > Default disk selection: > > 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. > > > - How do we know that 4 GB is enough for vm install? Jeffrey mentioned > that it failed to complete the install with 4 GB.Take a look at the bug > 8525.
Yes, as Dave mentioned, we'll need to get real numbers from ips. > - What about default disk for SPARC? Is it same as X86? See notes from today's meeting at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ai_client_redesign_mtg_0520.txt > What about determinism of disk selection? > - Deterministic disk device id is always present. we get it from > libdiskmgmt, which is what is used by target discovery > - we could do ordering based on order of device ids > - device ids are changed, although very rarely > > > - What about using MPXIO for disk name? I will investigate this idea. > Currently, we expect x86 disk to have solaris2 partition or we fail. Is > this reasonable? What is > the disk we want is unformatted. We should create it in that case. > > - How do differentiate whether the disk is unformatted or the format we > don't understand. We have to be careful to delete something we don't know. ok > x86, only one disk and no solaris2 partition? Currently, we don't > install it. Consensus > is that we should install it. > > - If you have space to create a Solaris partition, then it may be ok. If > you don't have space, which partition will you delete to create Solaris > partition? See notes for today's meeting. > Do we need default disk scenario? Is it too risky? Should we always make > user specify disk? When is > default used? Evaluation purposes? > > - I think we need default disk since first time users may not know how > to specify the disk in the manifest. If the system already has a Solaris > version installed, it will be useful. Yes, we concluded that as well. Thanks for the feedback, sorry for the delayed response. Sue > - Sundar >> >> 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 >
