Hi Jim,
Hennelly, Jim (MGCS) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "When the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) is installed on your system, and
> if Veritas Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) is enabled on a physical disk or
> partition you want to export as virtual disk, then you have to export
> that disk or partition without setting the excl option. Otherwise, you
> receive an error in /var/adm/messages while binding a domain that uses
> such a disk."
>
> - Does this statement imply excl is used by default?
>
No, the 'excl' option is not set by default when you do an 'ldm-add-vdsdev'
ldm add-vdsdev [options={ro,slice,excl}] .....
(I can see though how the sentence above could be read that way)
> Essentially, I wish to use VxVM in the Primary Domain, export as a whole
> disk and install Solaris 10 on top. I assume that the install disk will
> need to be format with UFS? Otherwise, the installation will not happen.
I haven't used VxVM, but AIUI you don't need to format the disk on the
service domain before exporting it to the guest. The installation on the guest
will format the disk.
>
> Currently, the CDROM hangs when detecting HW.
Are there any messages in /var/adm/messages on the service domain ?
Did you remove the CDROM from vold's control on the service domain ?
-- Liam
