How to configure the Guest domains on LDOM

LDOM

Guest domain is a top level virtual machine which we can create using the control
domain. Guest domain will not perform any administrative operation on ldom but runs
its own operating system on it.Once you have completed the Oracle VM for SPARC
tutorial 1 ,then you can start following this article.We will see how we can create a new
guest domain and allocate the resources to it.

Creating the new Guest Domain

1. Login to the control domain which we have already configured . (Refer Oracle VM for
SPARC tutorial 1 )
2. You need to find out how much resources are available in the system.Use ldm list-
devices -a command to get those details.
PD-bash# ldm list-devices -a

CORE

ID %FREE CPUSET

0 0 (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

1 100 (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

2 100 (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)

3 100 (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)

4 100 (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)

5 100 (72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)

6 100 (80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)

7 100 (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95)

VCPU

PID %FREE PM

0 0 no

1 0 no

2 0 no

3 0 no

4 0 no

5 0 no

6 0 no

7 0 no
8 100 --- -------------->Free CPU's cores starts here.

9 100 ---

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95 100 --- -------------->Free CPU's cores ends here.

MAU

ID CPUSET BOUND

0 (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) primary

1 (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

2 (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)

3 (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)

4 (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)

5 (72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)

6 (80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)

 7 (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95)

MEMORY

PA SIZE BOUND

0x0 512K _sys_

0x80000 1536K _sys_

0x200000 94M _sys_

0x6000000 32M _sys_

0x8000000 96M _sys_

0xe000000 32M primary

0x10000000 28416M ------------------------------> Free Physical

memory

0x700000000 4G primary

IO

DEVICE PSEUDONYM BOUND OPTIONS

pci@400 pci_0 yes

pci@500 pci_1 yes

PD-bash#

#
3.Create a new Guest domain using the below command.

PD-bash# ldm add-domain ua1

PD-bash# ldm list-domain

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

primary active -n-cv- SP 8 4128M 0.3% 17m

ua1 inactive ------

PD-bash#

4.Add 8 vcpus to guest domain ua1.

PD-bash# ldm add-vcpu 8 ua1

PD-bash# ldm list-domain

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

primary active -n-cv- SP 8 4128M 0.5% 17m

ua1 inactive ------ 8

PD-bash#

5.Add 4G memory to logical domain ua1.

PD-bash# ldm add-memory 4G ua1

PD-bash# ldm list-domain

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

primary active -n-cv- SP 8 4128M 0.4% 18m

ua1 inactive ------ 8 4G

PD-bash#
6.Create a new virtual NIC on top the virtual switch and assigned to ua1. List the logical
domain bindings to verify the configuration.

PD-bash# ldm add-vnet vnet0 primary-vsw0 ua1

PD-bash# ldm list-bindings ua1

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

ua1 inactive ------ 8 4G

UUID

1e8baa72-a123-6184-f724-feebad1585eb

CONTROL

failure-policy=ignore

DEPENDENCY

master=

NETWORK

NAME SERVICE ID DEVICE MAC MODE

PVID VID MTU LINKPROP

vnet0 primary-vsw0 0 00:14:4f:fb:54:92 1

PD-bash#
7.Now its time to add the new disks to logical domain ua1 . Here I am using
/dev/dsk/c4t0456RTE000005400002d0s2 LUN for ua1 domain .

8.First i am allocating the LUN to virtual disk server.

PD-bash# ldm add-vdiskserverdevice /dev/dsk/c4t600144F0B8E706DA00005300F4350005d0s2

vol0@primary-vds0

PD-bash# ldm list-services vds0

LDom "vds0" was not found

PD-bash# ldm list-services

VCC

NAME LDOM PORT-RANGE

primary-vc0 primary 5000-5100

VSW

NAME LDOM MAC NET-DEV ID DEVICE LINKPROP

DEFAULT-VLAN-ID PVID VID MTU MODE

primary-vsw0 primary 00:14:4f:fa:12:0e nxge1 0 switch@0

1 1 1500

VDS

NAME LDOM VOLUME OPTIONS MPGROUP DEVICE

primary-vds0 primary vol0

/dev/dsk/c4t0456RTE000005400002d0s2

PD-bash#
9.Now bind the virtual disk to logical domain ua1 which you have created in step 8 .

PD-bash# ldm add-vdisk vdisk0 vol0@primary-vds0 ua1

PD-bash# ldm list-bindings ua1

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

ua1 inactive ------ 8 4G

UUID

1e8baa72-a123-6184-f724-feebad1585eb

CONTROL

failure-policy=ignore

DEPENDENCY

master=

NETWORK

NAME SERVICE ID DEVICE MAC MODE

PVID VID MTU LINKPROP

vnet0 primary-vsw0 0 00:14:4f:fb:54:92 1

DISK

NAME VOLUME TOUT ID DEVICE SERVER MPGROUP

vdisk0 vol0@primary-vds0 0
PD-bash#

10.The same way you can map the ISO image file to guest domain using the below set
of commands.

PD-bash# ldm add-vdiskserverdevice /export/home/sol-10-u10-ga2-sparc-dvd.iso

iso0@primary-vds0

PD-bash# ldm add-vdisk iso0 iso0@primary-vds0 ua1

PD-bash# ldm list-bindings ua1

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

ua1 inactive ------ 8 4G

UUID

1e8baa72-a123-6184-f724-feebad1585eb

CONTROL

failure-policy=ignore

DEPENDENCY

master=

NETWORK

NAME SERVICE ID DEVICE MAC MODE

PVID VID MTU LINKPROP
 vnet0 primary-vsw0 0 00:14:4f:fb:54:92 1

DISK

NAME VOLUME TOUT ID DEVICE SERVER MPGROUP

vdisk0 vol0@primary-vds0 0

iso0 iso0@primary-vds0 1

PD-bash#

11.Just bind the logical domain to the primary domain.

PD-bash# ldm list-domain

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

primary active -n-cv- SP 8 4128M 0.4% 26m

ua1 inactive ------ 8 4G

PD-bash#

PD-bash# ldm bind-domain ua1

LDom ua1 started

PD-bash# ldm list-domain

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

primary active -n-cv- SP 8 4128M 0.7% 30m

ua1 bind ------ 5000 8 4G

PD-bash#
12.Set the auto-boot is false to logical domain ua1 for Operating system installation.

PD-bash# ldm set-variable auto-boot\?=false ua1

13.Boot/start the logical domain ua1.

PD-bash# ldm start-domain ua1

LDom ua1 started

PD-bash# ldm list-domain

NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME

primary active -n-cv- SP 8 4128M 0.7% 30m

ua1 active -t---- 5000 8 4G 12% 1s

PD-bash#

14. Take the console of the logical domain ua1 .It uses the console port 5000 (see
step:13)

ok boot iso0

PD-bash# telnet 192.168.2.11 5000

Trying 1192.168.2.11...

Connected to 192.168.2.11.

Escape character is '^]'.

Connecting to console "ua1" in group "ua1" ....

Press ~? for control options ..

{0} ok
15. List the devices to boot.

{0} ok devalias

iso0 /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1

vdisk0 /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0

vnet0 /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@0

net /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@0

disk /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0

virtual-console /virtual-devices/console@1

name aliases

{0} ok

16.Boot the system from iso.

{0} ok boot iso0

Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1 File and args:

SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_147440-01 64-bit

Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Configuring devices.

Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.

Attempting to configure interface vnet0...

You have successfully created the guest domain and assigned the resources to it. You
have also mapped the virtual disks to the virtualdisk server and mapped to the guest
domain or logical domain. In the end of the article ,we have see how to access the
console of the guest domains and mapped the ISO file for OS installation.
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