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Minor xVM flag day: 6667553 Port virtinst 0.300_3

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:38:00 -0700
From: John Danielson <John.Danielson at sun dot com>
To: on-all at eng dot sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Minor xVM flag day: 6667553 Port virtinst 0.300_3

If you do not use xVM or do not use virt-install to install xVM guests, you
can ignore this message.

The putback of 6667553 Port virtinst 0.300_3 to /ws/xvm-gate constitutes
a minor
flag day for users of virt-install(1) to create Solaris Nevada or Indiana
para-virtual guests on the xVM hypervisor.

This version of virt-install requires build 89 or greater of Nevada or
Indiana due to changes in xVM device naming that were putback into
build 89.  If you see the following messages on the install console of your
guest, you are using a pre-89 build of Solaris.

WARNING: Unrecognized device: xvda
WARNING: Unrecognized device: xvda
WARNING: Unrecognized device: xvdb
WARNING: Unrecognized device: xvdb

Note: this only applies to installation of para-virtual guests.  Fully
virtual (hvm) guest installations are not subject to this restriction.

Another change to note is  network installation of para-virtual guests
now requires the mac address of the guest to be specified on the
command line using the '-m/~--mac=' option;  the previous version of
virt-install would generate a random mac address if one was not
supplied.  Again, note that is restriction only applies to para-virtual
guests.

Please send any questions you may have to either myself or the xVM team at
matrix-eng at sun dot com

Thanks,
- john