Mark Humphreys wrote:
Indeed. On VMware, you should install the "VMware Tools" for Solaris after
installing the operating system. You will get better performance using the
drivers written by the people who built the virtual hardware.
As for the VMware Converter, I used it on Windows once; and, I believe
there's a version for Linux, too. But, instead, I tarred-up my Linux
systems, created a new VM, and with the assistance of a second "helper VM"
(or rescue CD) I received and extracted the tar files; modified the kernel
module load file for virtual drivers (based-on the configuration of an
already running similar Linux VM); and, re-installed the boot loader.
You could probably try the same with OpenIndiana; but, by the time you've
made a "helper VM", you would probably be better-off just to copy files over
to the new systems. :)
Yeah, I think you're right. This is primarily a SAN, running napp-it on
top of OI. I'm migrating it to a VM on top of ESXi 4.1, using pci
passthrough to give OI access to the sata controller the 6 raidz2 drives
are on. One of the big wins here: if I present a vmxnet3 nic to OI, any
VM guests (like my ubuntu server) that have a vmxnet3 driver, can get
extremely high data transfer rates (I've been talking to someone with an
identical setup, and he gets about 5gb/sec transfer using NFS, although
I'm leaning to iSCSI, since that is where my datastore is now...)
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