Running Indiana under HVM takes a some trickery. The issue as you have noticed is that graphics don't work well. The problem is that there no Cirrus driver in Indiana. So the way around it is to boot it in text mode and follow the steps on Stephan Hahn's blog on configuring the Vesa driver and then start Xorg.
Of course you boot up and get the desktop and try to install, your mileage may vary on the installation. I seen issues when trying to install under HVM, the installer hangs at 86%. This is when the installer runs bootadm to update the archive. OTOH, I have been able to successfully boot and install using virtual box. The only issue there is that the default network driver pcn is not included. There other alternatives that have been mentioned on other mailing lists/blogs. -Sanjay Jason Zhao wrote: > Hi,Detlef: > > I think you hit the bug: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=78 > > So far, it will go to command-line prompt if you install in-preview2 > as hvm guest. And,moreover, there is no xen.gz code to support pv mode > in in-preview2. So I think it is not possible to run in-preview2 on xVM. > But it could work in Virtual-Box. > > Thanks > Jason > Detlef Drewanz wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to install in-preview2 as hvm guest in Solaris xvm. But when >> I boot indiana it stops with the command-line prompt. Then I can login >> as jack and then ? >> >> I get a prompt with wrong keyboard layout. Ok I could first work around >> that. But how to start the graphical installer or the graphics screen >> itself. This seems to be different that it was for my S10 8/07 >> installation. Has anyone done this before and has an idea ? >> >> IMHO this should work (I am using a U40M2 with 8GB memory. Solaris 10 >> 8/08 already runs as hvm guest.) >> >> Thanks >> Detlef >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
