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LDOM Guest Domain Cloning Using DD

This document outlines steps to more quickly deploy guest domains in Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly called Logical Domains Manager or LDOM) by copying the root disk of an existing running machine. It describes creating an image file of the base machine's root disk, mounting and modifying the image to update configuration files and device links for the guest domain, and then configuring and starting the new guest domain using the prepared image.

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LDOM Guest Domain Cloning Using DD

This document outlines steps to more quickly deploy guest domains in Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly called Logical Domains Manager or LDOM) by copying the root disk of an existing running machine. It describes creating an image file of the base machine's root disk, mounting and modifying the image to update configuration files and device links for the guest domain, and then configuring and starting the new guest domain using the prepared image.

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LDOM: Faster deployment of Guest domains using dd

Written by geekyS
Monday, 08 December 2008 17:38 - Last Updated Tuesday, 16 December 2008 12:23

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Sun Virtualization  - Logical Domain Manager(LDOM) 

Following procedure explains the steps for faster deployment of LDOM guest domains by
copying root disk of a running machine,

1)Create dd out of base machine root disk

#dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/tmp/guest.img bs=8192k

Provide your root disk rdsk device path in place of /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

2) Mount guest image file(/tmp/guest.img) created

#lofiadm -a guest.img
#mount /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

3) Update the guest domain configuration in the created image

#cd /mnt/etc
#rm defaultdomain

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LDOM: Faster deployment of Guest domains using dd

Written by geekyS
Monday, 08 December 2008 17:38 - Last Updated Tuesday, 16 December 2008 12:23

#rm hostname.*

-Create and update /mnt/etc/hostname.vnet0


-Update /mnt/etc/nodename file with the guest domain hostname

4)Modify vfstab 

  - remove any mounts relevant to the base host from which image was created
  - replace base host root mount as below   

   replace
 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0      /       ufs     1       no      -
  with
  /dev/dsk/c0d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0      /       ufs     1       no      -

5) Remove the device files in the image


 

#rm /mnt/dev/dsk/*
#rm /mnt/dev/rdsk/*

6) Create device links for disk0 which will represent guest image file(/tmp/guest.img)

#cd /mnt/dev/dsk
#ln -s ../../devices/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0:a c0d0s0
#cd /mnt/dev/rdsk

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LDOM: Faster deployment of Guest domains using dd

Written by geekyS
Monday, 08 December 2008 17:38 - Last Updated Tuesday, 16 December 2008 12:23

#ln -s ../../devices/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0:a,raw c0d0s0

7) Touch reconfigure file for automatic configuration during bootup


 

#touch /mnt/reconfigure

8) umount the image


 

# cd / ; umount /mnt
# lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

9) Configure LDOM Guest domain( not the scope of this document )

#ldm add-domain guestdom


#ldm add-vcpu guestdom
#ldm add-memory guestdom
#ldm add-vnet vnet1 primary-vsw0 guestdom
#ldm add-vdsdev  /tmp/guest.img  vol1@primary-vds0
#ldm add-vdisk vdisk vol1@primary-vds0 guestdom
#ldm bind guestdom
#ldm start-domain guestdom

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