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titleINFO:

For installation we need 2GB RAM. After installation we can use less if needed.

Installation iso could be fetched from http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/illumos/dilos/isos/dilos-1.3.7/dilos-1.3.7.132-amd64.iso

 

Known issues :
At installation your network card will be
detecte
 detected and configured, 
but at boot it will not exists as Xen uses the xnf0 interface, 
you need to do the
following:

 

 copy
 following, replace rtls0 with your network interface

 

Code Block
languagebash
titleFix networking on DilosHVM
  cp /etc/hostname.
<your-nic:for example rtls0> ->
rtls0 /etc/hostname
.xnf0 if you are using static address

if you are using DHCP for the network interface update

 

/etc/dhcp.<your nic for example rtls0>

 
.xnf0 
  cp /etc/dhcp.rtls0   /etc/dhcp.xnf0
Info
titleKnown Issue error: Failed to start domain diloshvm error: POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. error: Failed to create vnic over bge1 with MAC address XXXXXXXXX)

 Try to find vnic with mac address what you can see in the error message - and remove vnic before vm start using the following command

Code Block
languagebash
titleget conflicting vnic
dladm show-vnic
dladm delete-vnic  <your vnic with the mac address in the error message>
 
virsh shutdown diloshvm
virsh start diloshvm


Code Block
languagebash
titleInstallation command:
virt-install -v --name=dilosHVM --ram=2048 --network bridge \
 --disk path=/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xen/dilosHVM,driver=phy --vcpu=2 \
 --cdrom /xen/isos/dilos-1.3.7.132-amd64.iso --vnc