Hi All, I'd posted earlier on caiman-discuss@ some questions about our proposed solution to AI support for xVM domU guests, and was wondering if I could get you guys to take a peek at the webrev?
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~timf/6808205-virt-install-ai/webrev/ Specifically for xVM, this breaks down to: * HVM guests - no change, we have --pxe boot there * PV guests - we grab the boot_archive and kernel from the install_server, boot the microroot (with -B install_server set to the same location we pulled the boot_archive and kernel from) Both types of guest need defect 6850 fixed before they'll work. Specifically though, I'm looking for an opinion (and perhaps a bit of a crystal ball?) as to whether you guys are planning a minimal bootable LiveCD that's capable of kicking off an AI install? Trying to predict what you might do in that case, I have code at the moment that checks to see if the PV guest was passed a non-http/https location as its installation media, in which case it doesn't pass the "install_media=" line to the AI client, the thinking being that the client shouldn't have to download *.zlib files if they're available locally. Does this make sense or should I still be passing that boot option regardless? As for an exact timeline for my changes, I'm not sure when this stuff is planned to go back, I just wanted to be in a position to say whether it's ready or not, and would really value your opinions! cheers, tim [1] This is for the current xen 3.1 codebase in OpenSolaris, I'm porting these changes to our pending 3.3 code as well
