Please see below my solution to OpenSolaris bug ID 6908973, posted to xen-discuss list:
- set BIOS time to UTC
- set zone_info=UTC and zone_lag=0 in /etc/rtc_config
- set TZ=UTC in /etc/TIMEZONE
- enable ntpd
- after reboot the dom0’s time should be the correct UTC time
- shutdown all domUs; for each xVM domain remove the rtc_timeoffset
xm list -l domain | grep -v rtc_timeoffset > domain.sxp
xm new -F domain.sxp
- reconfigure each guest domain with BIOS time set to UTC
Hope this helps.
I have set up a CentOS mirror at http://centos.mirror.bradiceanu.net.
Of course, it’s IPv6 enabled.
Other hosted mirrors at mirror.bradiceanu.net.
Append the provider configuration to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
provider:
set device PPPoE:<interface>
set authname <PPPoE username>
set authkey <PPPoE password>
set dial
set login
add default HISADDR
enable lqr echo
enable dns
nat enable yes
set redial 2
Replace <interface> with your network interface towards the PPPoE server. Start the PPPoE client, as root: /etc/rc.d/ppp start
Enable PPPoE client at startup, append to /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_<interface>="up"
ppp_enable="YES"
ppp_profile="provider"
ppp_mode="ddial"
Start the PPPoE client with /etc/rc.d/ppp start as root. The PPPoE interface is usually tun0.
After you create a Regular Tunnel at Hurricane Electric’s tunnelbroker.net you will receive the following informations:
Server IPv4 Address
Server IPv6 Address
Client IPv4 Address
Client IPv6 Address
Routed /64
Solaris and OpenSolaris IPv6 tunnel setup
Create /etc/hostname6.ip.tun0 file:
tsrc Client_IPv4_Address tdst Server_IPv4_Address up
addif Client_IPv6_Address Server_IPv6_Address up
Add the permanent IPv6 default gateway:
route -p add -inet6 default Server_IPv6_Address
(Tested on Solaris 10 5/09 and 10/09, OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.02 preview snv_127)
Linux (RHEL / Fedora / CentOS) IPv6 tunnel setup
Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-sit1 file:
DEVICE=sit1
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6TUNNELIPV4=Server_IPv4_Address
IPV6TUNNELIPV4LOCAL=Client_IPv4_Address
IPV6ADDR=Client_IPv6_Address/64
Add the following to /etc/sysconfig/network file:
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=sit1
(Tested with Fedora 11 and 12, CentOS 5.3 and 5.4)
FreeBSD IPv6 tunnel setup
Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf file:
gif_interfaces="gif0"
gifconfig_gif0="Client_IPv4_Address Server_IPv4_Address"
ipv6_enable="YES"
ipv6_network_interfaces="lo0 gif0"
ipv6_ifconfig_gif0="Client_IPv6_Address prefixlen 128"
ipv6_defaultrouter="Server_IPv6_Address"
(Tested with FreeBSD 6.4)
Create a 10 GB ZVOL for storage:
pfexec zfs create -V 10g rpool/f12d0
Install Fedora 12 domU:
pfexec virt-install -n f12 -r 512 --vcpus=4 -f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/f12d0 -b e1000g0 --os-type=linux -p --nographics --os-variant=fedora11 -l http://fedora-12-mirror/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os/
-n f12 – domU’s name
-r 512 – allocate 512 MB memory
–vcpus=4 – number of virtual CPUs allocated (make sure this number is lower or equal to the number of CPUs available)
-f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/f12d0 – ZVOL block device
-b e1000g0 – bridged networking to e1000g0 interface
-p – paravirtualized guest
–os-variant=fedora11 – “hack” until fedora12 OS-Variant will be integrated into xVM
-l http://fedora-12-mirror/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os/ – replace fedora-12-mirror with a near Fedora 12 mirror, replace i386 with x86_64 for 64-bit domU
After you bring up the network, do a VNC installation.
Until xVM supports ext4 boot, make sure to create an ext3 /boot partition (or just a big ext3 / filesystem)
After installation, start the domU:
pfexec xm start -c f12
You will be presented the pygrub menu, just press Enter to boot.
Log into the domU and change the default timeout=0 to a different value (e.g. 5 seconds) in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Now you can use virsh start / shutdown commands.
To auto-start the guest on host boot:
virsh autostart f12
Tested on OpenSolaris 2010.02 preview snv_127.
I’ve build a Fedora 12 Poptop rpm:
pptpd-1.3.4-1.fc12.i386.rpm MD5 bdab201d70e78abe40f873d71880f718
pptpd-1.3.4-1.fc12.src.rpm MD5 ebd64f47b0a40a7585e22a11cc4e2890
If you get this error message:
Plugin /usr/lib/pptpd/pptpd-logwtmp.so is for pppd version 2.4.3, this is 2.4.4
just comment out logwtmp option in /etc/pptpd.conf and restart pptpd with service pptpd restart.
Username/password pairs used for pptp authentication should be placed in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
# client server secret IP addresses
username * password
To supply a DNS server to PPTP clients, just add them to /etc/ppp/options.pptpd like ms-dns A.B.C.D.
To configure local and remote PPTP client’s IP address modify localip and remoteip options in /etc/pptpd.conf.
To enable pptp server at startup run chkconfig pptpd on.
Create a new Boot Environment:
pfexec beadm create devel
Mount the new Boot Environment:
pfexec mkdir /mnt/devel
pfexec beadm mount devel /mnt/devel
Use the dev publisher:
pfexec pkg -R /mnt/devel set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org
Update to the latest bits:
pfexec pkg -R /mnt/devel image-update -v
If everything went fine (after you read the Release Notes), activate the new BE:
pfexec beadm activate devel
Reboot:
pfexec shutdown -y -g1 -i6
Did this remotely. After reboot, system was up and running, including all xVM domU autostarted.
From Solaris Patch 119091-34
Problem Description:
6801126 libima should get over pkginfo love
I sure hope libima got over pkginfo love!
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fpu – Onboard FPU
vme – Virtual Mode Extensions
de – Debugging Extensions
pse – Page Size Extensions
tsc – Time Stamp Counter
msr – Model-Specific Registers
pae – Physical Address Extensions
mce – Machine Check Architecture
cx8 – CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic – Onboard APIC
sep – SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
mtrr – Memory Type Range Registers
pge – Page Global Enable
mca – Machine Check Architecture
cmov – CMOV instructions (plus FCMOVcc, FCOMI with FPU)
pat – Page Attribute Table
pse36 – 36-bit PSEs
pn – Processor serial number
clflush – CLFLUSH instruction
dts – Debug Store
acpi – ACPI via MSR
mmx – Multimedia Extensions
fxsr – FXSAVE/FXRSTOR, CR4.OSFXSR
sse – SSE
sse2 – SSE2
ss – CPU self snoop
ht – Hyper-Threading
tm – Automatic clock control
ia64 – IA-64 processor
pbe – Pending Break Enable
syscall – SYSCALL/SYSRET
mp – MP Capable
nx – Execute Disable
mmxext – AMD MMX extensions
fxsr_opt – FXSAVE/FXRSTOR optimizations
pdpe1gb – GB pages
rdtscp – RDTSCP
lm – Long Mode (x86-64)
3dnowext – AMD 3DNow! extensions
3dnow – 3DNow!
k8 – Opteron, Athlon64
k7 – Athlon
constant_tsc – TSC ticks at a constant rate
up – smp kernel running on up
pebs – Precise-Event Based Sampling
bts – Branch Trace Store
nonstop_tsc – TSC does not stop in C states
pni – SSE-3
pclmulqdq – PCLMULQDQ instruction
dtes64 – 64-bit Debug Store
monitor – Monitor/Mwait support
ds_cpl – CPL Qual. Debug Store
vmx – Hardware virtualization
smx – Safer mode
est – Enhanced SpeedStep
tm2 – Thermal Monitor 2
ssse3 – Supplemental SSE-3
cid – Context ID
fma – Fused multiply-add
cx16 – CMPXCHG16B
xptr – Send Task Priority Messages
pdcm – Performance Capabilities
dca – Direct Cache Access
sse4_1 – SSE-4.1
sse4_2 – SSE-4.2
x2apic – x2APIC
aes – AES instructions
xsave – XSAVE/XRSTOR/XSETBV/XGETBV
avx – Advanced Vector Extensions
hypervisor – Running on a hypervisor
lahf_lm – LAHF/SAHF in long mode
cmp_legacy – If yes HyperThreading not valid
svm – Secure virtual machine
extapic – Extended APIC space
cr8legacy – CR8 in 32-bit mode
abm – Advanced bit manipulation
sse4a – SSE-4A
ibs – Instruction Based Sampling
sse5 – SSE-5
skinit – SKINIT/STGI instructions
wdt – Watchdog timer