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

[mike havlicek]

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. 

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 was trying to use Xen from CentOS 5.4 but immediately realized that there
doesn't seem to be at least an openly available xenified Sol10 kernel. Leading to mucking with opensolaris 0906 (which would run, but ends up in
a mess with gdm not being able to start an xserver for the sunray server product.... at least thats what I found in the logs...) I don't know whether thats because of Xen vnc magic, inherent video limitations in Xen paravirtualization or opensolaris itself as the opensolaris wouldn't boot to install directly on the server hardware. (That box has AMD opteron 280 processors which are 64bit sans AMD V...) Its an HP Proliant DL385 ... Or the problem could be something completely different in the opensolaris rigging to run SRSS 4.1 ...

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? (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?

Thanks,

-Mike