sagun shakya wrote:
Thank you Mark for you response. I have my responses inline.
Mark Johnson wrote:
Should only take 20 minutes or so.
I knew I wasn't doing it right.
How is your dom0 configured?
Basically enabled xVM on the system.
On dom0, you need to limit the amount of memory
dom0 uses by adding dom0_mem to grubs menu.lst.
Normally, if you have zfs, you should set dom0_mem to
~ 2G. If you have a bunch of cores in your system,
you should also limit the number of CPUs dom0 uses
(somehwere between 2-4 depending on your I/O load)
kernel$ /boot/$ISADIR/xen.gz com1=9600,8n1 console=com1 dom0_mem=2g
dom0_max_vcpus=2 dom0_vcpus_pin=true
You should limit dom0 from ballooning down
svccfg -s xvm/xend setprop config/dom0-min-mem=2000
svcadm refresh xvm/xend;svcadm restart xvm/xend
If your using zfs in dom0, you should limit the
size of the arc.
echo "set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x10000000" >> /etc/system
How many CPUs in the system?
The system is a Sun Fire X4150 with 1 Quad-Core Intel processor.
Are you using zfs?
If so, are you limiting the ARC cache
No.
Are you using a dom0_mem in menu.lst>
No, I haven't used dom0_mem. As I see in
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/configuring-dom0/
For a system with 32GB memory I should set dom0_mem to 8GB.
Did you limit ballooning in dom0?
Are you restricting the number of CPUs dom0 uses?
Why aren't you using virt install?
Actually I did use virt install. I only dumped the xml as I thought it
would be easier to read.
Hm, virt-install shouldn't have used driver file? Did you use a
virt-install on solaris? If so, what were the options you passed
it?
Why aren't you using tap vs file?
I wasn't aware of this. Is there a URL where I can read more about such
things besides
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/configuring-dom0/
In the configuratin below I would set driver name=tap instead?
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='tap' type='vdisk'/>
<source file='/export/fedora10'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
but it would be easier to use virt-install and then look at the
output...
Note in the upcoming 3.3 bits, you can use --connect=test:///default to spit
out xml.. Although you can't pass this to define as is... For one thing,
<domain type='test'> needs to be changed to <domain type='xen'>.. But it
is useful for dumping out xml to browse though. Also note, the virt-install
syntax below is specific to 3.3. Not what is currently in OpenSolaris/Nevada.
-bash-3.2# virt-install -n fedora10-live -r 1024 -v --livecd --vnc
--noautoconsole -c /net/heaped/export/isos/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso
--os-type=linux --os-variant=fedora10 --disk
path=/export/fedora10,size=10,driver=tap,subdriver=vdisk,format=vmdk --connect
test:///default
Starting install...
Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 10 B 00:00
<domain type='test'>
<name>fedora10-live</name>
<currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
<memory>1048576</memory>
<uuid>97e8ad01-a86f-85d0-a441-2dc28b224aac</uuid>
<os>
<type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='cdrom'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/><apic/><pae/>
</features>
<clock offset="utc"/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<distro>
<type>linux</type>
<variant>fedora10</variant>
</distro>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/test-hv</emulator>
<console type='pty'/>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='tap' type='vdisk'/>
<source file='/export/fedora10'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<source file='/net/heaped/export/isos/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='e1000g0'/>
<mac address='00:16:36:79:bf:3a'/>
</interface>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='en-us'/>
</devices>
</domain>
test hypervisor supplied. Exiting.
-bash-3.2#
This is problem # 1... Your using file instead of
tap, and it's probably on a zfs based system.
lofi runs *really* slow on top of zfs.
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='file'/>
<source file='/xvm/lm_ufs.img'/>
<target dev='xvda'/>
MRJ
Here is what I had defined in my xml :
<domain type='xen' id='-1'>
<name>snv115_nfs_12gb</name>
<uuid>e3c1a3c2-0bda-65ab-3c7e-8c6acf180dd0</uuid>
<bootloader>/usr/lib/xen/bin/pygrub</bootloader>
<os>
<type>solaris</type>
</os>
<memory>12582912</memory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<distro name='solaris'/>
<clock offset='localtime'/>
<devices>
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='e1000g0 '/>
<target dev='vif-1.0'/>
<mac address='00:16:3e:45:94:ef'/>
</interface>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='file'/>
<source file='/xvm/lm_ufs.img'/>
<target dev='xvda'/>
</disk>
</devices>
</domain>
thanks,
Sagun
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