[clue-tech] Solaris 10 as a VM without hardware virtualization

[mike havlicek]

Thanks for the suggestions,

Setting up seperate run levels on the box to run vmware and proxmox
using standard and openvz kernels respectively on the host seemed the most sane thing to do. But of course I had to try running both vmware and proxmox simultaneously using an openvz kernel. The host debian lenny system
exhibits some unstable behavior in this mode and I have been only running
a vmwared solaris system to this point in the environment. 

On my first attempt using debian kernel 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 the vmware vsock wouldn't build/load during  configuration nor would the vmware server processes start. On a later try paying little attention to what was done differently, proxmox and vmware services seem to run together using the openvz kernel (without anwering yes for the vmware config to try to setup its vsock stuff)...

-Mike

--- On Mon, 5/31/10, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> From: David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Solaris 10 as a VM without hardware virtualization
> To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 1:36 PM
> mike havlicek wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle. I have a
> desire to at least briefly run Solaris 10
> > as a VM under some sort of linux so as to support SRSS
> 4.1 (SunRay Server) while doing something
> > completely non-linux.
> 
> By pickle you mean that the most convenient hardware to use
> has proxmox on it, right?
> 
> > I seem to have gotten cornered into wanting to try
> running vmware-server on the proxmox box that
> > I mentioned in my last post but I suspect that is a
> bad idea. I was thinking about trying to
> > install vmware-server 2.0.2 right on the lenny distro
> that is proxmoxified. The pipe dream is to
> > get some previously configured solaris 10 installed
> from vmware appliance exports without having
> > to scrap my proxmox experiment.
> 
> I think that vmware-server should work with proxmox. 
> Perhaps I'm missing something in kvm and 
> openvz but they shouldn't interfere with vmware-server
> (especially if you turn all the proxmox stuff 
> off--that should be as easy as /etc/init.d/proxmox stop, or
> something).  At most I'd expect you 
> might need to unload the openvz modules (if they are
> modules).
> 
> > I think there is a question somewhere in there. I
> guess ultimately it looks like I can either
> > install some server distro on the server hardware and
> pop in vmware or venture into what seems
> > dangerous and have enik with debian lenny try to
> support proxmox and vmware server. Is trying to
> > support proxmox and vmware-server with an openvz
> kernel known to be unworkable or a really bad
> > idea?
> 
> If proxmox and vmware don't play nice it's just a matter of
> turning off the one you don't want. 
> That means stopping some processes and maybe unloading some
> kernel modules.  If you can't unload the 
> modules you can always install a more vanilla kernel (for
> the vmware part) and boot to that (and 
> perhaps set up a different runlevel that doesn't start any
> proxmox stuff--not that they've made it 
> easy to ferret out what that is).
> 
> Or if you want to avoid the whole business, set up a new
> partition and install Lenny there (you used 
> LVM so making a new partition out of free space is
> really-easy-no-reboot-required, right?)  If you 
> didn't use LVM, gparted can probably take care of you.
> 
> > (BTW before restoring the debian/proxmox to enik I was
> trying to install ubuntu server
> > 10.04 32 bit version and could not get an iso
> downloaded and burned so as to pass the CD check or
> > install...) Are there md5sums for the iso files
> downloaded from ubuntu.com? Or some known mirrors
> > with working iso for 32bit processors?
> 
> I'd bet there are md5sums in a file next to the
> .isos.  Your problem is not the mirrors.  It might
> 
> be the download but I'd bet that burning or the CD check
> are the problem.  You can check your burns 
> reliably by following the directions at http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm.
> 
> If you narrow down the problem to what's burned on the CD
> I'd try a different burner or different 
> brand of media (seems to me that CD-RW media wasn't so
> reliable a few years ago).
> 
> Dave
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