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OpenSolaris on Xen Update September 2006 Joe Bonasera, Todd, Clayton, Dave Edmondson, Mark Johnson, John Levon, Tim Marsland, et al. Operating Platforms Group Sun Microsystems, Inc. Agenda OpenSolaris on Xen Status Porting Issues


  1. OpenSolaris on Xen – Update September 2006 Joe Bonasera, Todd, Clayton, Dave Edmondson, Mark Johnson, John Levon, Tim Marsland, et al. Operating Platforms Group Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  2. Agenda • OpenSolaris on Xen Status • Porting Issues • Roadmap • Areas of Interest Sun Confidential 2

  3. Status September 2006 • Open Solaris Community > www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen > Downloads and How To instructions • History > End 2005 Internal Solaris domU on Xen 2.0 > Jan 2006 OpenSolaris domU on Xen 3.0 > Jul 2006 added dom0, MP, 64 bit, vbd • August Update > Bug fixing, additional NIC support > DomU disk image for download Sun Confidential 3

  4. Porting Issues - Hypervisor • MP support > Spurious page faults • 64 bit support > System calls and rflags • Preemption and migration Sun Confidential 4

  5. Porting Issues - Drivers • Inter-domain protocols > Network checksum differences • Grant Table Mapping Operations Sun Confidential 5

  6. Porting Issues – Dom0 • Tools > 32 / 64 bit tools > /proc vs /dev > Use of mlock() with privcmd • Kernel > Xen console, pts differences > Lack of MSI support > Lack of APIC TPR analogue Sun Confidential 6

  7. Road Map du Jour • Updates via OpenSolaris community > 3.0.3, HVM, balloon, global pages > Bug fixes, performance tuning • Putback into OpenSolaris main branch • Portability fixes to Xen • Solaris 10 backport Sun Confidential 7

  8. Areas of Interest • Cross OS/FS boot loading • Control tools • NUMA • IOMMUs • Multiple Page Size Support • Writable Page Table Alternatives Sun Confidential 8

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