Howto install crossbow in opensolaris

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"Crossbow provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or Virtual machine."


More info about crossbow project here

First, you need to install BFU.

Download it from here here

root@opensolarais:~/work# tar xfv SUNWonbld-20060828.i386.tar.bz2
root@opensolarais:~/work# cd onbld

If you have an old version of BFU uninstall it first

root@opensolarais:~/work# pkgrm SUNWonbld

If not just, install it in your system using pkgadd command.

root@opensolarais:~/work# pkgadd -d . SUNWonbld

If everything is ok, you should have in opt the following:

root@opensolaris:/opt/onbld# pwd
/opt/onbld
root@opensolaris:/opt/onbld# ls
bin env etc gk lib man


Anyway, the bfu command is not in your path, so you must add the following lines in your .profile file

root@opensolaris:~# vi .profile

[..]

export PATH=/opt/onbld/bin:/opt/onbld/bin/i386:
export FASTFS=/opt/onbld/bin/i386/fastfs
export BFULD=/opt/onbld/bin/i386/bfuld
export GZIPBIN=/usr/bin/gzip


logout, login, and that is all.You can now upgrade your system


The next step is to install crossbow

But before that,if you don't want to work for nothing, check if your NICs are to work with IP instances (read more here )

Download the latest snapshot from here

root@opensolaris:~/work# ls
nightly-nd-bins-20081209.i386.tar.bz2

root@opensolaris:~/work# tar xvf nightly-nd-bins-20081209.i386.tar.bz2
nightly-nd/
[...]

root@opensolaris:~# bfu /root/work/crossbow/nightly-nd/
Copying /opt/onbld/bin/bfu to /tmp/bfu.1733
Executing /tmp/bfu.1733 /root/work/crossbow/nightly-nd/
[...]
a lot of stuff scrolling down
[...]


(the shell is changed in 'ksh')

Do not forget to run '/opt/onbld/bin/acr'

After this(if everything is ok) reboot your machine.

You will notice a new entry in your grub list

After login you will see

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 net-virt xb_45 snv_103 120808 Near Future
bfu'ed from /root/work/crossbow/nightly-nd/ on 2009-02-24


Now you can play with dladm to create vnics(read more about vnics and zones here here
or this pdf file)

ex:

root@opensolaris:~# dladm create-etherstub etherstub1
root@opensolaris:~# dladm create-vnic -l etherstub1 vnic1

root@opensolaris:~# dladm show-vnic
LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESS MACADDRTYPE VID
vnic1 etherstub1 0 2:8:20:c8:18:74 random 0

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