Thanks for the updates, it hurts to hear that solaris is not support. I was
hoping I could nest the vm, but even that has been removed as a feature.
Anyone have any workarounds on getting solaris running within openstack.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.de...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Michael March <mma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't follow Solaris that closely but I vaguely remember the Joyent
> folks
> > ported all of KVM to Solaris, right?  Or am I just missing the whole
> point
> > here?
>
> They did, and it is a fairly impressive piece of work. Their focus (as
> a hosting provider) was running kvm virtual machines in a illumos
> host. That support is completely separate from the guest drivers to
> make virtio work for block and network devices. afaict, network device
> support is complete, but block device support isn't finished yet. This
> means you can't run illumos/solaris as a guest using kvm with virtio.
>  -nld
>
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