Andreas Rogge's questions

I'm trying to install Solaris x86 11.4 on a machine that requires an additional driver to access its drives. The driver is provided in a p5p-package and I have tried adding the driver before starting the installation using ddu-text.

This does not work so far. I tried several parameter-combinations in ddu-text and then went on to debug ddu itself. It seems like the initialization of IPS on the installer live-image fails. When /usr/lib/install/live_img_pkg5_prep is called, it fails with the following error:

builtin: rm: not found
builtin: mv: not found
mv: cannot rename /var/pkg to /var/pkg.1226: Device busy
/usr/lib/install/live_img_pkg5_prep: error moving /var/pkg to tmpfs timesystem

I don't believe this simply broken, so what am I doing wrong?

When I try to export a virtual machine using XenCenter, it fails weirdly; XenCenter creates a "Transfer VM" that should do the export, but that VM failts to start and gets stuck in "stopped" status.

I already had a look at the Transfer VM template and removed an older version.

Right now I'm trying with XenServer 7.3, but it didn't work in previous versions either.

Also, in XenCenter there is no useful logging, I just see "failed to export" notifications and that's it.

We're right now in the process of deploying a set of fibre-channel connected hosts with multipathed root disks. The installation is automated through foreman, so we boot vie PXE and run anaconda with a kickstart file.

The default behaviour in anaconda is nowadays to use so-called user-friendly-names for multipath-devices (i.e. mpatha, mpathb, etc.). We would like to disable this behaviour so we have disks named by wwn.

As far as I understand the anaconda source-code there is a parameter/command called mpath_friendly_names, that can be used to enable friendly names (which is today's default). However, we want to disable friendly names and I cannot figure out what parameter/command in the kickstart will do that.

So how can I achieve this?