[Openstack] Solaris Fails as Guest VM

Sean Dague sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 18 14:26:50 UTC 2012


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?
>>
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Sean Dague
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