How to Use the Oracle Solaris JumpStart Feature on an Oracle Solaris 10 Guest Domain

Note – The Oracle Solaris JumpStart feature is only available for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS. Toperform an automated installation of the Oracle Solaris 11 OS, you can use the AutomatedInstaller (AI) feature. See Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 JumpStart to Oracle Solaris 11.1Automated Installer. Modify your JumpStart profile to reflect this change.A...

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Howto Install the Oracle Solaris OS on aGuest Domain Froman Oracle Solaris ISO File

1. Stop and unbind the guest domain (ldg1).primary# ldm stop ldg1primary# ldm unbind ldg1 2. Add the Oracle Solaris ISO file as a secondary volume and virtual disk.The following uses solarisdvd.iso as the Oracle Solaris ISO file, iso_vol@primary-vds0 as asecondary volume, and vdisk_iso as a virtual disk:primary# ldm add-vdsdev /export/solarisdvd.iso...

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Installing Oracle Solaris OS on a Guest Domain

1. Insert the Oracle Solaris 10 OS or Oracle Solaris 11 OS DVD into the DVD drive. 2. Stop the volume management daemon, vold(1M), on the primary domain.primary# svcadm disable volfs 3. Stop and unbind the guest domain (ldg1).primary# ldm stop ldg1primary# ldm unbind ldg1 4. Add the DVD with the DVD-ROM media as a secondary volume and virtual disk.The...

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Creating and Starting a Guest Domain

The guest domain must run an operating system that understands both the sun4v platform and the virtual devices presented by the hypervisor. Currently, this means that you must run at least the Oracle Solaris 10 11/06 OS. Running the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS provides you with all the OracleVMServer for SPARC 3.0 features. See the OracleVMServer for...

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Enabling Networking Between the Control/Service Domain andOther Domains

By default, networking between the control domain and other domains in the system isdisabled. To enable this, the virtual switch device should be configured as a network device. Thevirtual switch can either replace the underlying physical device (nxge0 in this example) as theprimary interface or be configured as an additional network interface in...

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Rebooting toUse Logical Domains

You must reboot the control domain for the configuration changes to take effect and for theresources to be released for other logical domains to use. Shut downand reboot the control domain.primary# shutdown -y -g0 -i6 Note – Either a reboot or power cycle instantiates the new configuration. Only a power cycleactually boots the configuration saved...

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How to Set Up the Control Domain

1. Determine whether you have cryptographic devices in the control domain. Note that only UltraSPARC T2, UltraSPARC T2 Plus, and SPARC T3 platforms have cryptographic devices (MAUs). Because newer platforms, such as SPARC T4 systems and Fujitsu M10 systems, do not have separate cryptographic units, there is no need to assign a cryptographic accelerator...

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