John Levon wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:44:30PM -0700, James Adams wrote:
explains these simple steps. Apparently someone found it worth documenting
before
Nope, this was when you had to write the menu entries yourself as I
mentioned.
John are saying that I'm deluded in thinking that I followed the same steps I outlined above when I
first followed the steps explained on that wiki page, and instead the wiki page I referenced only
explains how to write GRUB menu list entries? If so then I challenge you to put it back just like
it was before you guys removed it and I'll show you -- it listed the same steps, plus several others
in the mix to sufficiently obfuscate what's actually required to get it done. I didn't have to
write GRUB menu entries, all I had to do was to follow the steps listed above which were also
spelled out in that wiki page. And yes, someone did find it worth documenting, otherwise why was it
there in the first place?
knowledge (some of us are downright thick when it comes to system
administration) and what may seem trivial or obvious to you isn't always so
for everyone else.
And this is what the official documentation is for (the admin guide,
xVM(5), etc.). The wiki is for non-official hacks, quick tips and the
like.
Exactly, I bookmarked that wiki page because it gave a quick tip on how to reboot a Solaris box in
xVM-enabled mode.
If the xVM documentation I've been able to find wasn't so poor it might not be necessary to bookmark
every single wiki page or mailing list message which mentions the basics of how to use xVM on
Solaris, but as it stands now it's imperative to cobble together your own guide from many disparate
sources.
For example:
1. Go to Google and type in "solaris xvm documentation", and the first page it lists is this one:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/developers/. That's an impressive looking front page,
so you might think that there'll be some useful documentation contained therein.
2. On that page click on bullet #5, "Booting". This should be the place to find out how to boot
Solaris into xVM mode.
3. When you get to that section it tells you that you need an entry in the menu.lst file which
specifies the hypervisor. It then provides you with a link where that's supposedly described. OK,
I'll follow that link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/setupsoldom0/
4. Resource Not Found We're sorry. The resource "/os/community/xen/docs/setupsoldom0/" could not
be found. Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble
locating a page on this site, try visiting the OpenSolaris home page.
Is there better xVM documentation available other than what I found above and the virsh/xvm man
pages? I find it almost impossible to believe that there isn't, probably I've just not found it.
If so then someone please clue me in so I can stop bothering this list with my newbie questions.
Thanks in advance for your help.
--James
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