Running Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.x on the Oracle Solaris 10 OS is the only supported (tested) version for the Oracle VM Server for SPARC P2V tool. Older versions of VxVM, such as 3.x and 4.x running on the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 operating systems, might also work. In those cases, the first boot after running the ldmp2v convert command might show warning messages from the VxVM drivers. You can ignore these messages. You can remove the old VRTS* packages after the guest domain has booted.
Boot device: disk0:a File and args: SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_139555-08 64-bit Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Hostname: normaal Configuring devices. /kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxdmp: undefined symbol 'romp' WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'vxdmp' WARNING: vxdmp: unable to resolve dependency, module 'misc/ted' not found /kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxdmp: undefined symbol 'romp' WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'vxdmp' WARNING: vxdmp: unable to resolve dependency, module 'misc/ted' not found /kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxio: undefined symbol 'romp' WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'vxio' WARNING: vxio: unable to resolve dependency, module 'drv/vxdmp' not found WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER WARNING: VxVM vxspec V-5-0-0 vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER WARNING: VxVM vxspec V-5-0-0 vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER WARNING: VxVM vxspec V-5-0-0 vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER WARNING: VxVM vxspec V-5-0-0 vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER WARNING: VxVM vxspec V-5-0-0 vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER WARNING: VxVM vxspec V-5-0-0 vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load WARNING: vxspec : CANNOT INITIALIZE vxio DRIVER NOTICE: VxVM not started
The Oracle Solaris Installer does not present the Upgrade option when the partition tag of the slice that holds the root (/) file system is not set to root. This situation occurs if the tag is not explicitly set when labeling the guest's boot disk. You can use the format command to set the partition tag as follows:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0d0 <SUN-DiskImage-10GB cyl 282 alt 2 hd 96 sec 768> /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0 1. c4t2d0 <SUN146G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 848> /pci@400/pci@0/pci@1/scsi@0/sd@2,0 2. c4t3d0 <SUN146G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 848> /pci@400/pci@0/pci@1/scsi@0/sd@3,0 Specify disk (enter its number)[0]: 0 selecting c0d0 [disk formatted, no defect list found] format> p PARTITION MENU: 0 - change `0' partition 1 - change `1' partition 2 - change `2' partition 3 - change `3' partition 4 - change `4' partition 5 - change `5' partition 6 - change `6' partition 7 - change `7' partition select - select a predefined table modify - modify a predefined partition table name - name the current table print - display the current table label - write partition map and label to the disk !<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return quit partition> 0 Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 Enter partition id tag[unassigned]: root Enter partition permission flags[wm]: Enter new starting cyl[0]: 0 Enter partition size[0b, 0c, 0e, 0.00mb, 0.00gb]: 8g partition> label Ready to label disk, continue? y partition>
Restoring ufsdump archives on a virtual disk that is backed by a file on a UFS file system might cause the system to hang. In such a case, the ldmp2v prepare command will exit. You might encounter this problem when you manually restore ufsdump archives in preparation for the ldmp2v prepare -R /altroot command when the virtual disk is a file on a UFS file system. For compatibility with previously created ufsdump archives, you can still use the ldmp2v prepare command to restore ufsdump archives on virtual disks that are not backed by a file on a UFS file system. However, the use of ufsdump archives is not recommended.