How to Install the Oracle VM Server for SPARC P2V Tool

This procedure describes how to install the ldmp2v command on an Oracle Solaris 10 system by using the SUNWldmp2v package.

On an Oracle Solaris 11 system, the ldmp2v command is installed by default when you install the ldomsmanager package.

1. From the Oracle VM Server for SPARC download page at http://www.oracle.com/virtualization/index.html, download the P2V software package, SUNWldmp2v.

   The SUNWldmp2v package is included in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC zip file.

2. Become an administrator.
   • For Oracle Solaris 10, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services .
   • For Oracle Solaris 11.2, see Chapter 1, About Using Rights to Control Users and Processes, in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
3. Use the pkgadd command to install the SUNWldmp2v package.

   # pkgadd -d . SUNWldmp2v

4. Create the /etc/ldmp2v.conf file and configure the following default properties:

   • VDS – Name of the virtual disk service, such as VDS="primary-vds0"

   • VSW – Name of the virtual switch, such as VSW="primary-vsw0"

   • VCC – Name of the virtual console concentrator, such as VCC="primary-vcc0"

   • BACKEND_TYPE – Back-end type of zvol, file, or disk

   • BACKEND_SPARSE – Determines whether to create back-end devices as sparse volumes or files (BACKEND_SPARSE="yes") or non-sparse volumes or files (BACKEND_SPARSE="no")

   • BACKEND_PREFIX – Location to create virtual disk back-end devices

     When BACKEND_TYPE="zvol", specify the BACKEND_PREFIX value as a ZFS dataset name. When BACKEND_TYPE="files", the BACKEND_PREFIX value is interpreted as a path name of a directory that is relative to /.

     For example, BACKEND_PREFIX="tank/ldoms" would result in having ZVOLs created in the tank/ldoms/domain-name dataset, and files created in the /tank/ldoms/domain-name subdirectory.

     The BACKEND_PREFIX property is not applicable to the disk back end.

   • BOOT_TIMEOUT – Timeout for Oracle Solaris OS boot in seconds

   For more information, see the ldmp2v.conf.sample configuration file that is part of the downloadable bundle.