Graeme West wrote: > Hi there, > I've been attempting to install OpenSolaris 2008.5 as a fully > virtualised guest on a CentOS 5.2 Xen host. When I boot the OpenSolaris > DomU for the first time, I get the blue screen allowing me to pick > either the OpenSolaris installer or the text mode installer, but after > that the installation hangs. It gets as far as: > >> SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 32-bit >> Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. >> Use is subject to license terms. >> Hostname: opensolaris >> Remounting root read/write >> Probing for device nodes... > > I'm using the GUI guest OS installer in virt-manager. Here is my setup > for the VM: > > Mode: Full virtualisation (64-bit) > Disk: 32GB flat file > RAM: 2GB > Start-up RAM: 2GB > VCPUs: 8 (the machine has 8 real CPUs) > OS install image: os200805.iso > > > > I suspect that this could be something to do with the OpenSolaris > installer starting in 32-bit mode. I didn't get the option to pick > between 32 and 64 bit modes for the VM when running through the install > setup. Is this the problem, and is there a way to force OpenSolaris to > start the install CD in 64-bit mode? >
This should just work, bug 315 (defect.opensolaris.org) was fixed precisely to support running as a domU, but perhaps there's something different with the CentOS host implementation that reflects a different device setup. The live CD boot is set up to automatically select 64-bit if the platform reports that it is 64-bit capable. You can try to force it by editing the GRUB entries (replace $ISADIR with amd64) but that's likely to fail if GRUB's auto-detection of the platform didn't work. You could also try the build 93 development ISO as OS changes since 2008.05 may allow it to just work. Filing a bug at defect.opensolaris.org (distribution/opensolaris/livecd) would be helpful. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
