Re: Problem with sunvdc driver in Solaris 11 LDOM installation

Hi Claas,

Welcome to the Debian SPARC mailing list! I think LDOMs are poorly supported by Debian and perhaps Linux in general. If you search "debian sparc ldom" in Google, there are a hits about various problems, but one statement [1] in particular sums up what I thought: "current state of linux in LDOMs currently is unusable." I'm actually surprised that you managed to get it installed at all. That's cool.

I'm not 100% sure where you should raise a bug, but Linux sparc kernel mailing list might be a better place for a driver issue. As a different question, if you have Solaris installed into an LDOM, does it report the correct size for the same disk? That is -- is there a problem with the LDOM software and ISO images, or is there a problem with the Linux driver -- being certain of that would also be really helpful for the kernel developers.

Patrick

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2013/12/msg00015.html

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:02 AM, <Claas.Ziemke@esa.int> wrote:

Hi everyone,

this is my first post to this list so please be kind with me... :-)

I tried to install Debian sparc 7.4.0 in a Solaris LDOM.
Because i am behind a corporate firewall the network install was no option.

When i tried to mount the cdrom after modprobing sunvdc i recognize in dmesg
that all the iso-images Solaris exports as virtualized CD/DVD drives are _exactly_
640MB even if its a DVD.iso. With the hard disk images exported as virtualized
HDDs this is not the case.

So my workaround was to copy all the iso image contents on a HDD image and
install from there.

1. Can anybody confirm this (or is this even a known bug? i didnt find anything on Google though).
2. If it is a Bug, where is the appropriate location to raise it?

Thanks in advance,

Claas Ziemke

p.s. i can post dmesg output etc. of-course, just didnt want to spam the list with my first post :-)

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