So I’ve been playing around with the new virtualization features that have been put back into Opensolaris and to say the documentation is a little sketchy is being kind. Most writing found on the web refers to installations that are using linux as the Dom0 and Solaris is doing it just different enough to make them useless.
As a helpful hint, when you are setting up Dom0 and you have multiple adapters don’t believe the documentation when it says that the default is the first device in dladm show-link. Because for me it wasn’t, and I wasted a bit of time trying to figure out why my networking wasn’t working.
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January 29th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
If you’re going down the path of experimenting, you should checkout the details behind crossbow. Apparently it’s in the latest nevada release for opensolaris. It will definitely be a big deal as far as networking for virtual machines is concerned.
-Trevor
January 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
It was actually the crossbow merge that spurred me to upgrade. I’ve been using Nevada as my home server since around b32 with occasional lu’s to significant versions. It’s definitely interesting technology, like most of the newer things in OpenSolaris and certainly validates my decision to stop using Linux.
-Martin