Installing OpenIndiana in a Xen DomU

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

So I am on the ground in Dallas and trying to get my head around some of the technologies that we use in my new environment. One of those being the Xen kernel. I have never actually used Xen before, though I have used xenserver a bit. Anyways so my first foray into the Xen world is trying to get OpenIndiana (successor to OpenSolaris) running on it, and see what sort of performance issues it might have. We are hoping to be able to leverage its CIFS and vscan functionality to provide some security for a secured network file server.

Xen on the bin

Installing OpenIndiana in a Xen DomU