I have tried console=text and still fail as well as safe boot. I even tried doing kvm->ubuntu + virtual box-> solaris vm. But have had trouble pass VT-x to virualbox on kvm. Its strange to me that both qemu and kvm both fail. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sean Dague <sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com>wrote: > My experience is that solaris is incredibly fickle on kvm. I think one of > the issues had to do with the boot screen and how it uses graphics and > framebuffer. > > -Sean > > > On 07/17/2012 08:55 PM, Narayan Desai wrote: > >> I suspect that you need the right solaris (more likely illumos) bits >> to get guest side support for virtio. We tried a while ago and the >> default openindiana at the time didn't work. >> -nld >> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Joshua <josh at root.bz> wrote: >> >>> I have tried with both KVM and qemu. Solaris starts to boot and hits >>> grub then cycles boot. Anyone experienced this? >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >>> Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> > > -- > Sean Dague > IBM Linux Technology Center > email: sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com > alt-email: sldague at us.ibm.com > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120718/d0b680b7/attachment.html>