Moving LDoms between platforms is supported. alex.
Steve Goldthorpe wrote: >> I've just tried moving an LDOM from a UltraSPARC-T1 >> (t6300) based host to an UltraSPARC-T2 (t6320) based >> host, by creating the equivalently named LDOM (& >> devices) and copying over the boot file (the only >> thing I missed was setting the boot environment >> variables). All seems to be working fine except for >> the boot message 'WARNING: ncp1: only one instance >> (0) allowed'. >> >> 1) Should I be worried about this? >> 2) Is moving a host in this manner between T1 & T2 >> hosts supported (I currently don't allocate any >> cryptographic units)? >> >> I'm not seeing this warning on a Sol10u5 LDOM, could >> it be normal on Sol10u4? >> >> There's nothing I can find in sunsolve and Bug ID >> 6549875 (which seems to cover this message) is less >> than helpful. > > Well I've got rid of the warning message - looks like the virtual firmware is > passing a different device for the ncp device on the t6320 and so the > /etc/path_to_inst ends up with two ncp devices (and somone realises this is > nonsense). To fix delete the "/virtual-devices at 100/ncp at 4" 0 "ncp" line > and change the instance number in the newly generated ncp device to 0 (so you > have "/virtual-devices at 100/ncp at 6" 0 "ncp"). I'd guess you should do a > reconfig boot after this, but as I don't have any mau devices attached to my > ldoms yet, this doesn't seem to be required. > > I guess I'll still need to know if moving LDOMs between platforms is > supported thought. > > -Steve > -- > This message was posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > ldoms-discuss mailing list > ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
