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From: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: OpenSolaris under KVM?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:09:28 +0000 (UTC)
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Avi Kivity <avi <at> argo.co.il> writes:

> 
> John Freighter wrote:
> > Has anybody succeded running OpenSolaris under KVM virtualization?
> > Before I download OS install DVD in vain...
> >
> 
> There was indeed a report (and a patch) from Michael Riepe to that 
> effect.  -rc2 should contain that patch.  Please report to kvm-devel if 
> it doesn't work.
> 


I tried installing Solaris 10 U2 with Qemu/KVM-8 on -rc2 plus 
the latest 8 kernel side KVM patches. 
It appeared to work well until about 80% in the installation 
where it got stuck after this error is dmesg -

vmwrite error: reg 6802 value 1c334000 (err 17408)
This was on a Core Duo Mac Mini.

Parag