[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] build8x problems

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 27.03.2009 um 14:25 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:48AM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> The important word here is "SPARC" :-( You have solaris8 and solaris9
>> brands on Sparc (in fact, build8s and build9s are branded zones on
>> the same machine as build10s is a native zone), and lx-(Linux-)brands
>> on x86. That means no Linux on Sparc and no Solaris 8/9 on x86.
>>
>
> o fer goodness sake.. that's really annoying!
>
> for the record though... a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, i  
> DID
> get solaris 8 successfully running on vmware, at least enough to run  
> the
> installer. It was the only way i could install solaris on that  
> particular
> hardware since there was no solaris-recognizable cdrom drive :)
> (which means that at minimum, it recogized the disks properly)
> But to do it, you would have to degrade the disks down to a
> vmware emulated "PIO mode", I think. performance would be horrible,
> comparatively speaking.

You only have these in the small VMware variants, not ESX. We have
an ESX farm for all of our x86 stuff and the need to put another
box next to it with YAV (Yet Another Virtualization) is somewhat...
unsatisfactory. But it is as it is.

> looking forwar to the LX50.

In fact it is a V65x with 2 GB installed and 1,5 GB mapped to Solaris
through the virtualization and a 2,8 GHz Xeon


Best regards

   -- Dago