Henry Zhang wrote: > Hi there, > > When I run virt-manger 0.4, and try to create the HVM guest, I noticed > there is option for OS Type, if I want to install Solaris, I think I > should select UNIX, then in OS Variant, I can see only Solairs 10 and > Solaris 9. And in fact Solaris have Nevada, it's the developing HEAD > Solaris, if I would like to install it, which I should select? > > My understanding to HVM is that we can install any OS without any > change, if this machine have special CPU, so why we need to select the > OS Type/Variant? If I don't select both OS Type and variant, is it ok? :) > > Hi Henry. We added the os-type/os-variant parameters primarily to let us do tricky things that certain OSes need to boot fully-virt. For example, Win2k will only boot with acpi=off and apic=off in the guest config. There is a dictionary in python-virtinst/virtinst/FullVirtGuest.py which has the rather arbitrary os-type/os-version parameters we included, along with a few flags. Selecting "Generic" or "Unix/Solaris 10" will work fine for you, but we would happily take a patch that adds whatever variants are appropriate for Solaris right now. Take care, --Hugh -- Red Hat Virtualization Group http://redhat.com/virtualization Hugh Brock | virt-manager http://virt-manager.org hbrock@xxxxxxxxxx | virtualization library http://libvirt.org _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
