Just in case the author (or further readers like me) haven't seen the 
referenced thread, there's word that HVM 64-bit domains are still underway, so 
for unmodified guests we must use the 32-bit versions. 

See:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=182165&tstart=0

BTW, can we force a 32-bit Guest domain boot (newly created or old) with a 
64-bit dom0 xVM kernel loaded and running?

Is it in FAQ somewhere? No?..

Beside giving the link, I have some questions of my own, concerning xVM 
performance and general compatibility:

In my personal experience, the performance seems appaling when it's working at 
all :( It's worse with the idea of a 45% RAM footprint of Xen dom0, compared to 
200-500Mb of VMWare ESX Server 3.0.1's Console. On good big servers, 45% is a 
lot.

We did some tests at work trying to install some Xen virtual machines on Sun 
X4600 (snv_b77), and see if [Open]Solaris+xVM(+ZFS+...) is a reasonable 
replacement right now for VMWare ESX...

Does anyone have near-hardware performance? Maybe just a few times worse? Which 
OSes andversions? For our integrations, Solaris 10, RHEL 3-5 and Windows 
2000/2003/XP are of primary interest.

With the problems we had, I wonder: did we do something (many things) wrong, or 
does everyone suffer similarly, and that's just the way things are right now? ;)

Here's some results of the few attempts so far (Solaris 10U4 works well, others 
suck at best):

While we did get Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) to boot and even go on configuring in 
graphics mode (first reboot), it took a couple of hours to get to the TCP/IP 
Settings screen (Setup will completein approximately 29 minutes)... BTW, VNC 
screen loses somepart of the display bottom side (due to unusual resolution in 
the Windows installer); can it possibly adapt to VM resolution changes?

Windows 64-bit releases failed (froze fordays) in the text mode part, Starting 
Windows - as expected, I see now.

I did get a Solaris 10u4 8/07 running in a "--vnc --hvm" installation mode, but 
in the textmode installer over VNC (got a corrupted white screen in graphical 
attempts). Got the full install okay (End User + OEM packages), booted up all 
the way to the JDS. Apparently it works as 32-bit, without an 
amd64/boot_archive and amd64/multiboot parts yet, and seemed reasonably fast 
working.

I did *not* get a guest snv_b77 running (best I did was text mode and Signal 11 
in install-solaris after Reboot Warning screen).
 
 
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