Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
Virtualizaton for Sparc
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

 
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo on Sparc
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
imcsk8
n00b
n00b


Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Posts: 3
Location: Chihuahua México

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:49 am    Post subject: Virtualizaton for Sparc Reply with quote

Hello,

I recently installed gentoo on a niagara machine and i want to use vservers in order to have more isolated environments for my applications and for having the ability to copy the the vserver to other machine for testing or expanding the capabilities.

In the <a href="http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_Considerations#Hardware_Compatibility">linux vserver website sparc is listed as a supported arch</a> but it marked with a '*' in portage, also checked openvz which is only markes as "~" in portgage but i got an "unsupported architecture" error (kernel/cpt/cpt_context.c:134:2: error: #error Arch is not supported).

I have a few questions about this:

¿should i download the vanilla kernel and apply the vserver patches??
( I really would like to use the gentoo-sources)

¿are the vserver-sources marked with '*' because they don't work in sparc at all??
(if the can work i would like to help the gentoo-vserver team with the testing on sparc)

¿are there any equivalent solutions with more stability for sparc (i don't really want to use solaris if i can avoid it)??


I would like to know the alternatives i have for using vservers or if i should not use this technology in sparc at all.


Thanks for your help.
_________________
Ignorance, the plague is everywhere
-- Guttermouth
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
nadir-san
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 29 May 2004
Posts: 174
Location: Ireland

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know you might not want to .. but I suggest you install Solaris with logical domains, using solaris nevada preferably, I think opensolaris also has support.
Then partition your systems resources and install gentoo on the guest domains, if you require any help/advice please ask.
I am currently about to test gentoo with logical domains, this is definately the best option for virtualisation on the niagra processor.
I also can assure you, you will not be disappointed with the results/performance, this is a true hardware virtualisation solution and in my experience vastly outperforms xen based systems.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Weeve
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 30 Oct 2002
Posts: 641

PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

To the best of my knowledge, packages marked with -* to help indicate two things.

The first is to indicate that a package may only work on a select set of architectures (think binary only packages like mozilla-firefox-bin).

That a package has only been tested on select architectures and may be unusually problematic on architectures that are not explicitly mentioned in the KEYWORDS line.

If you've searched Gentoo's Bugzilla for vserver and SPARC and nothing has come up, I'd give it a shot. If it appears to work for you, let the SPARC team know by filing a bug indicating that it works for you and could use a keyword. As always, the output of emerge info and anything special you had to do to get it working is greatly helpful.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo on Sparc All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum