From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Thu Apr 28 20:01:37 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A01B20F6A for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:01:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saper@saper.info) Received: from m.saper.info (m.saper.info [IPv6:2a01:4f8:a0:7383::]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "m.saper.info", Issuer "Marcin Cieslak 2016" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B446D1D8F for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saper@saper.info) Received: from m.saper.info (saper@m.saper.info [IPv6:2a01:4f8:a0:7383::]) by m.saper.info (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id u3SK1OlN073978 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:01:24 GMT (envelope-from saper@saper.info) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=saper.info; s=Sep2014; t=1461873685; bh=558EKuFO4o3IHnDZPRDF/mY7W+IB/+v0innisEErRzE=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=d2WDpwtIkKA9kxMuCp/lJ+RiYbr/mjlUPXWJ0mdSiEMt9PwXeZH6xL5oM1B9ZryY9 3UbDj7/QJ1J5j91sOWEvQjRNYsFn9OpL4m2gn33biCEp1mSwPBYeNuT/zat8QyvV8C hoJOgzi4NBPv4wbMJbqFgX0ObF+VkdljyI7u6HuU= Received: from localhost (saper@localhost) by m.saper.info (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id u3SK1Nn9073975; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:01:23 GMT (envelope-from saper@saper.info) X-Authentication-Warning: m.saper.info: saper owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:01:23 +0000 From: Marcin Cieslak To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Booting Solaris 11.3 (was Re: Booting r298488 as Xen Dom0 may break ZFS pool?) In-Reply-To: <20160426112925.hmijqrxt52kyswfg@mac> Message-ID: References: <20160426071151.ctzdaehgfhzij6q3@mac> <20160426074302.4i3rv7wd5ogg7ful@mac> <20160426093556.oxeh5qyafe3ro6xy@mac> <20160426112925.hmijqrxt52kyswfg@mac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:01:37 -0000 On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:39:06AM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > By the way, I just managed to crash a whole machine by trying to > > boot Solaris 11.3: > > > > # builder = "hvm" > > memory = 2048 > > vcpus = 1 > > name = "Solaris0" > > disk = [ 'file:/root/sol-11_3-text-x86.iso,6:cdrom,r', '/dev/zvol/zroot/solaris0,raw,hda,w' ] > > kernel = "/root/xen/solaris/unix" > > ramdisk = "/root/xen/solaris/boot_archive" > > extra = "/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix -B console=ttya,livemode=text" > > #boot = "c" > > usbdevice = 'tablet' > > vnc = 1 > > vnclisten = '0.0.0.0' > > vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ] > > > > /root/xen/solaris/unix and /root/xen/solaris/boot_archive where extracted from sol-11_3-text-x86.iso > > ("Intel text-only image"). > > I don't think you can boot Solaris as a PV guest anymore, you should instead > boot it as a HVM guest. You will have to remove the kernel and ramdisk > options and instead add builder="hvm" (that you have left commented out). However supported or not, I think it should not crash a whole host system?... Marcin