<div dir="auto">You've seen this, right?<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><a href="https://dcvan24.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/create-a-solaris-10-x86-image-for-openstack/">https://dcvan24.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/create-a-solaris-10-x86-image-for-openstack/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"<strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"bitstream charter",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">2. Install Solaris</strong></div><p style="background:rgb(255,255,255);border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"bitstream charter",serif">First of all, create a QCOW2 image. There are several installation options for Solaris 10, but believe me you want a developer’s installation. You want bash, you want SSH, say yes… A developer’s installation needs about 6GB space, so it’s safe to create a image larger than 6GB</p><div style="background:rgb(255,255,255);border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"bitstream charter",serif;font-size:16px" dir="auto"><div style="border:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:640px;margin:1em 0px!important;font-size:1em!important"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid rgb(231,231,231);margin:0px 24px;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;width:705px;background:none!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;font-family:consolas,"bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important;table-layout:auto!important"><tbody style="background:none!important;border:0px!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important"><tr style="background:none!important;border:0px!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important"><td style="border-top:1px solid rgb(231,231,231);padding:6px 24px;background:none!important;border-right:0px!important;border-bottom:0px!important;border-left:0px!important;margin:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important;color:rgb(175,175,175)!important"><div style="background-image:none!important;background-position:initial!important;background-size:initial!important;background-repeat:initial!important;background-origin:initial!important;background-clip:initial!important;border-width:0px 3px 0px 0px!important;border-right-style:solid!important;border-right-color:rgb(108,226,108)!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px 0.5em 0px 1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;text-align:right!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important;white-space:pre!important">1</div></td><td style="border-top:1px solid rgb(231,231,231);padding:6px 24px;width:668px;background:none!important;border-right:0px!important;border-bottom:0px!important;border-left:0px!important;margin:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important"><div style="background:none!important;border:0px!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important"><div style="background-image:none!important;background-position:initial!important;background-size:initial!important;background-repeat:initial!important;background-origin:initial!important;background-clip:initial!important;border:0px!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px 1em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;direction:ltr!important;white-space:pre!important"><code style="font-size:13px;background:none!important;border:0px!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;font-family:consolas,"bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",courier,monospace!important;border-radius:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.1em!important;outline:0px!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;display:inline!important;color:black!important">qemu-img create -f qcow2 solaris.qcow2 7G</code></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="background:rgb(255,255,255);border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"bitstream charter",serif">Then you need a libvirt.xml file to start the VM. libvirt.xml is a configuration file for a VM. You can define everything about the VM in this file, including the number of cores, memory size, disk, network, etc. The following listing is a template of libvirt.xml used for Solaris installation."</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 14, 2017 7:01 AM, "John van Ommen" <<a href="mailto:john.vanommen@gmail.com">john.vanommen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Take a look at this:<div dir="auto"> <a href="https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Solaris_Guests" target="_blank">https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/<wbr>Solaris_Guests</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And this: </div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#UNIX_Family:_Solaris.2FOpenSolaris" target="_blank">https://www.linux-kvm.org/<wbr>page/Guest_Support_Status#<wbr>UNIX_Family:_Solaris.<wbr>2FOpenSolaris</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In a nutshell, it looks like all versions of Solaris 10 have various issues running under kvm but there are workarounds.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some releases require modification of the grub parameters to get Solaris to boot under kvm.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 14, 2017 6:45 AM, "Shyam Biradar" <<a href="mailto:shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com" target="_blank">shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-1824061919963203342quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello John,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am using KVM hypervisor with that I want to launch solaris 10 OS as guest vm using its ISO image.</div><div>I am able to start installation process but at the final step its failing to find installation media through cd/dvd device.</div><div>Attached screenshot.[solaris.JPG]<br></div><div><br></div><div>Error after selecting cd/dvd option: No disks found</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I tried some other ways like launching solaris on esx and converting its vmdk to qcow2, with this approach qcow2 boot process is getting stuck at very initial stage(at boot options step).</div><div>Attached screenshot{solaris-qcow2.JPG]</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="m_-1824061919963203342quoted-text"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-1824061919963203342m_-3370378241866558065gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thanks & Regards,<div>Shyam Biradar,</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com" target="_blank">shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com</a>,</div><div>Contact: <a href="tel:+91%2086002%2066938" value="+918600266938" target="_blank">+91 8600266938</a>.</div></div></div></div>
<br></div><div class="m_-1824061919963203342elided-text"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:53 PM, John van Ommen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.vanommen@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.vanommen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What is the error that you are receiving?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Shyam Biradar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com" target="_blank">shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-1824061919963203342m_-3370378241866558065h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to install solaris on OpenStack. I am facing many issues during os installation process.</div><div><br></div><div>Does OpenStack support solaris in any release/distribution?</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-1824061919963203342m_-3370378241866558065m_5420660120274421932m_-8982154964830528605gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thanks & Regards,<div>Shyam Biradar,</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com" target="_blank">shyambiradarsggsit@gmail.com</a>,</div><div>Contact: <a href="tel:+91%2086002%2066938" value="+918600266938" target="_blank">+91 8600266938</a>.</div></div></div></div>
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