How to setup Xen Dom0 on host using AMD CPU
on post : How to setup dilos-xen dom0 , it will guide you setup XEN with Dom0 on DilOS, if you are using AMD cpu, you will be hung after reboot your machine when "milestone/xvm" is enabled by svcadm.
in this article, I'll show how to configure XEN server on a machine using AMD CPU, I assume you are install 1.3.5, I think this issue will be fixed in later release.
Step-by-step guide
- Install DilOS
the important things is that, DilOS will use dedicated hard disk, so all of the data on the hard disk will be destroyed, so you have to backup you data
for the detailed installation step, please refer the installation screen. it's very easy. - make sure following line is in /etc/apt/sources.list file:
~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://apt.dilos.org/dilos dg-unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://apt.dilos.org/dilos dilos-testing main contrib non-free - upgrade your system by command apt-get update
- install term software by command apt-get install ncurses-term
- Configure XEN
Please followup article How to setup dilos-xen dom0 to configure your XEN, But need your attend that: after "beadm create/activate" and "reboot", you need to do step 2,3,4 in your new BE, and then, you could follow up following step, to install xvm,xterm software, and continue the steps.
enjoy your XEN on Dilos/Illumos.
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