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

[David L. Anselmi]

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