From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2008 - 06:53:38 EST
Dear managers,
we would like to run a couple of Solaris 10 instances (Sun Ray Server)
and one windows instance on a X2200 M2 and were spending some time on
trying to find an appropriate solution for this. The following
approaches were considered:
a) One guy suggested to use the free vmware product for windows or
linux. However, since we have done everything with Solaris so far and
not very much with Linux I am not very eager to install Red Hat on this
machine. We don't have a current verison of this OS. I googled a bit
and it seems that Red Hat is neither free nor can it be downloaded
anywhere!? I could order a CD but ... installing Red Hat just for being
able to install another os?? - I can't believe that anybody is
seriously considering to install Windows on the metal and run Solaris
as guest OS. This looks like a marketing joke to me!?
b) We downloaded and installed vmware ESX 3.5 yesterday. Installation
of this software (evaluation version) went fine. I created a virtual
machine, inserted the Soalris 10 DVD into the drive, started the
virtual machine and hoped it would boot the Solaris installer from the
DVD, but it did not. It says "Boot system not found" or similar. I
changed the boot order to cd, harddisk, network1, nertwork2 in the bios
of the virtual machine, clicked on the cd button to bind the cd to the
virtual machine but no avail. This thing won't boot the Solaris CD.
Moreover vmware ESX looks rather expensive. The vmware documentation
(is a nightmare) did not help at all. This did not bring us anywhere
either... :-(
c) We ordered a Solaris Express Edition DVD and installed that on the
X2200 M2 in orde rto try out the LDOMs. After having googled a lot and
found some blogs that seem to describe how to run Windows us a guest in
a logical domain I realized that xm and all the other xm related
packages are not installed. I thought/hoped trhese woul dbe part of the
Solaris Express CD. I tried to download them separately (as a binary)
but I only found ISOs fo rthe Solaris Express CD I already have and
sources for building the latest Solaris n my own which I do not want
to do. :-(
Do I have any other options? When will LDOMs be part of an official
Solaris release? Is anybody actually doing server virtualization
(Solaris 10, Windows,...) on an X2200 M2? I would really appreciate a
hint which approach to try out next.
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Andreas
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